[ntp:questions] NTP Limited Broadcast

Kevin D. Casey kevin at kdcasey.net
Sun Mar 11 23:39:30 UTC 2007


I am running NTP 4.2.2 on FreeBSD 6.2 broadcasting to clients on the broadcast address of an internal subnet 192.168.144.0/24 which is 192.168.144.255. The server is using 192.168.144.120 on its network interface. The attached switch hardware on the subnet is able to receive the broadcasts and update its clock as an SNTP client. I have also verified the presence of UDP 123 broadcasts using Ethereal. I have a proprietary time recording device also attached to the same broadcast domain that appears to be unable to receive it's updates in this way. Although it is designed to listen for UDP 123 broadcast traffic, the manufacturer is claiming that it will only listen for broadcasts sent to 255.255.255.255. However when I try to reconfigure NTPD to use 255.255.255.255 instead of 192.168.144.255 the broadcast stops working. Can anyone tell me how to configure NTPD to broadcast on 255.255.255.255?
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Kevin D. Casey
kevin at kdcasey.net



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