[ntp:questions] Unauthenticated Broadcast Client Drops Authenticated Server Packets.
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Fri Mar 16 03:26:50 UTC 2007
Arul Kumar C wrote:
> Hi Experts,
>
> I have got a broadcast server that sends broadcast messages
> authenticated with MD5. There is a broadcast client that has no
> authentication enabled. The packets on the broadcast client is
> dropped due to authentication failure. Could you please let me know
> if this is the expected behaviour of the broadcast client in this
> scenario.
>
> Since the broadcast cleint is not interested in authentication, it
> could very well accept the packet from the server though the packet
> has MAC, right ?
>
Try using -A on the ntpd startup line to have it ignore authentication.
Danny
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