Harlan Stenn wrote: > Eugen COCA wrote: > >> What is the maximum number of lines that ntpdc -c monlist >> command could display ? > > I *think* the answer is somewhere between 400 and 600. It has to do with > the number of responses that will fit into a UDP packet. > >> Are there any ways to "correct" this limmitation only by modifying >> the ntpdc source code or the problem is from the ntpd itself ? > > I *recall* that ntpd will not remember more than the last 600 (or so) > requests. > > The previous ntpdc maintainer has gone and I would be happy to find somebody > to take over maintenance of ntpdc. > > There has been some discussion that perhaps we could use TCP/123 for some of > these tasks, as we would not be limited by the UDP packet size then.
Nitpicking ahead. The size of a UDP datagram is limited to 65535 bytes including headers. Thus the payload of a UDP datagram is only limited to 65527 bytes. Of course, fragmentation my be an issue ;-) Regards. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
