Dave Johnson wrote: > Danny Mayer writes: >> If you are not using autokey authentication then it doesn't do the >> autokey dance and as a result is unable to estimate the delay between >> the broadcast client and the broadcast server. You didn't include the >> client or server config file so it's hard to be sure. >> >> Danny > > Even though, it should be doing a burst on startup to calculate some > sort of delay right? I usually see 0.004 sec on all clients. > Shouldn't some sanity checking of the calcualted delay catch this? > > > No auth is on. This is an isolated, unconnected subnet. Once host is > setup for broadcasting as a local reference, all other hosts are > clients of that one host. >
Authentication is OFF. disable auth disables authentication. Therefore your client is totally passive and never sends a packet to the server and therefore it cannot estimate the delay. Danny > > server: > ------ > > started as: > ntpd --panicgate --configfile=/var/run/ntp.conf --pidfile=/var/run/ntp.pid > > $ cat /var/run/ntp.conf > disable auth > disable stats > disable kernel > server 127.127.1.1 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 > fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 0 refid EXTL > broadcast bcast minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 > > $ grep bcast /etc/hosts > 172.16.63.255 bcast > > $ ntpq -c lpeers > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ============================================================================== > *LOCAL(1) .EXTL. 0 l 1 16 377 0.000 0.000 0.001 > bcast .BCST. 16 u - 16 0 0.000 0.000 0.001 > > > client: > ------ > > started as: > ntpd --panicgate --configfile=/var/run/ntp.conf --pidfile=/var/run/ntp.pid > > $ cat /var/run/ntp.conf > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > disable auth > disable stats > broadcastclient > > $ ntpq -c lpeers > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ============================================================================== > *card8 .EXTL. 1 u 15 16 377 0.001 0.338 0.069 > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
