[ntp:questions] Re: Broadcast
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Tue Jul 12 03:07:56 UTC 2005
Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2005-07-10, Jeremy Baggs <jbaggs at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I am trying to get ntpd working in broadcast mode using the MV
>>encryption scheme. I am running ntp 4.2.0 on all systems involved For
>>testing this out I have been using 2 boxes running FreeBSD 5.4.
>
>
> Have you taken a look at http://ntp.isc.org/Support/ConfiguringAutokey ?
>
>
>>my server /etc/ntp.conf contains:
>
>
> <snip>
>
>> broadcast a.b.255.255 autokey
>
>
> This needs to be the broadcast address for your network.
>
> Autokey is selected on the server-side for broadcast/multicast
> associations.
>
>
>>In the client /etc/ntp.conf I have:
>
>
> <snip>
>
>>broadcastclient a.b.255.255
>
>
> This needs to be the broadcast address for your network; and has to
> match the broadcast address used by your broadcast server.
>
Actually no. broadcastclient doesn't take an IP address as an argument.
multicastclient does. The only option for broadcastclient is novolley.
The argument will be ignored but it will act as a broadcast client.
Danny
>
>>Nothing is working. ntpq -p on the client returns: No association ID's
>>returned.
>
>
> It is not apparent from your message whether or not you've generated the
> host parameters.
>
> Please consult the Autokey Configuration guide at
> http://ntp.isc.org/Support/ConfiguringAutokey
>
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