[ntp:questions] newbie
Steve Kostecke
kostecke at ntp.isc.org
Thu Mar 1 22:00:41 UTC 2007
On 2007-03-01, mehmet bilgin <mehbilgin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have to computers on the same network. what i am trying to do is
> making one of the machines broadcast server and the other broadcast
> client. also server will use the local time.
>
> for that purpose i write the below lines into the /etc/ntp.conf at the
> server side
>
> server 127.127.1.0
> broadcast 20.1.1.255
You should also specify the driftfile and, there is any chance that your
broadcast packets will be routed to another network, 'fudge 127.127.1.0
stratum 10'
> and at the client side i only write
>
> broadcastclient
Broadcast mode requires the use of NTP Authentication unless explicitly
disabled.
If you wish to disable NTP Authentication you must start ntpd with '-A':
-A
Do not require cryptographic authentication for broadcast client,
multicast client and symmetric passive associations. This is almost
never a good idea.
There is also a configuration directive to disable authentication.
You should know that disabling authentication may allow rogue broadcast
servers to send invalid time to the systems on your network.
--
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.isc.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/
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