On 2010-11-30, Martin Burnicki <[email protected]> wrote: > Atul Gupta wrote: > >> Is there any way to configure ntp client in multicast mode , where >> it doesn't send unicast requests to server ( currently my ntpd >> client is sending unicast requests in order to determine the network >> propagation delay between the server and client and then continue >> operation in multicast mode).? I am using ntpd client on a device >> where transmitting is discouraged. I am using following version of >> ntpd ntpd: ntpd 4.2...@1:4.2.0a+stable-8-r Sat Mar 10 20:29:49 EST >> 2007 (1)
Multicast association behavior for your release of NTP is described at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.0/assoc.html#broad > There is a "novolley" keyword which suppresses those unicast request. > However, this has been flagged as deprecated in current NTP versions, > so you should check the HTML documentation which comes with your > specific NTP version to see if it is supported by that version. Searching for "novolley" at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.0/ returns no hits. The first mention of "novolley" seems to be in 4.2.2 ... see: http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.2/manyopt.html http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.2/confopt.html -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
