Mode 6 and mode 7 *should* have been included in the NTPv4 spec. There is effort underway to get them back.
I have no problem with mode 7 - it is a vendor-specific way to interact with an NTP daemon. Granted, I haven't heard of anybody else ever using it. Mode 7 has traditionaly been a binary protocol, while Mode 6 has been an ASCII protocol. There is no *requirement* that mode 7 use a binary protocol. Mode 6 stuff SHOULD be documented and specified by the RFC. It MAY be OK to carve out some space in this specification for vendor-specific usage. H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
