giovanni.razze...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to configure ntpd as a server providing time. > I want to use symmetric key authentication. > In my network I have ntp clients configured for authentication and client > configured with no authentication. > How do I configure my ntpd server to supply time to both type of clients? > Does ntpd as a time server respond to requests with authentication with > authenticated packets and to requests without authentication without > appending the hash? > > Thank you in advance for clarification
There's nothing special to do. ntpd's approach of authentication in client/server packet exchange is to let the client be able to verify that a reply it receives has indeed been sent by the expected server, and not by some node that pretends to be the server. So if the ntpd server instance receives a client request with a signature appended, it verifies the signature and send a signed packet back to the client. If it receives a request packet without signature then it simply sends a response without signature. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
