On Mar 18, 12:09 am, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He can change the server - address(es)/netmask(s), maybe add NICs - > and maybe he can change the router configuration. What he can't > change at the moment is the clients, so he's stuck with trying > to find a broadcast solution that hits 4 different subnets of > different sizes. > > I'm sure Erik would rather be doing something else by now. :-)
Agreed. I'd work with the manufacturer to change the clients; surely other customers of theirs have the similar issues. Erik really needs a unicast or multicast setup for NTP because the network topology. If the clients absolutely cannot change for any reason, the final option would be a "brute force" approach: actually put a physical NTP server (old junk PC running Linux or *BSD) in each of the four subnets. Have each of these broadcast to its local subnet, while getting the time from your main time server (and some other time sources from off-network). If money isn't an issue, you could even get some nice little Soekris or Gumstix boxes to be time servers for each subnet. This could be cheaper and easier than re-architecting the network topology to be "flatter". Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
