[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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