NTP broadcast client
Howdy all, I've got a Windows machine running Tardis ( nice piece of shareware) on my network, and it's broadcasting ntp updates on the subnet. I'm trying to get my freebsd machines to listen to those broadcasts to maintain their own clocks, rather than querying the outside servers. I've got the following line in my rc.conf, which I read *somewhere* after much googling that it would simply start the ntp daemon in listening mode: ntpd_enable=YES However, I see no ntp daemon, and am wondering just where I went wrong Any assistance rendered would be much appreciated. Kurt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTP broadcast client
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kurt wrote: Howdy all, I've got a Windows machine running Tardis ( nice piece of shareware) on my network, and it's broadcasting ntp updates on the subnet. I'm trying to get my freebsd machines to listen to those broadcasts to maintain their own clocks, rather than querying the outside servers. I've got the following line in my rc.conf, which I read *somewhere* after much googling that it would simply start the ntp daemon in listening mode: ntpd_enable=YES However, I see no ntp daemon, and am wondering just where I went wrong You're missing a /etc/ntp.conf. ntp.conf(5). This needs to contain the line: broadcastclient -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTP broadcast client
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:52 PM On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kurt wrote: Howdy all, I've got a Windows machine running Tardis ( nice piece of shareware) on my network, and it's broadcasting ntp updates on the subnet. I'm trying to get my freebsd machines to listen to those broadcasts to maintain their own clocks, rather than querying the outside servers. I've got the following line in my rc.conf, which I read *somewhere* after much googling that it would simply start the ntp daemon in listening mode: ntpd_enable=YES However, I see no ntp daemon, and am wondering just where I went wrong You're missing a /etc/ntp.conf. ntp.conf(5). This needs to contain the line: broadcastclient You also need to setup authentication (which I haven't been able to figure out) or pass the -A switch to disable it. Otherwise you will wonder why your server won't respond to the broadcasts like I did for several weeks. :) Here's the lines from my rc.conf: # Start ntpd on boot xntpd_enable=YES # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). # Flags to ntpd (if enabled) xntpd_flags=-A -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -l /var/log/ntpd.log It also appears from the man page that you could pass the -b switch to enable broadcast client mode and then you wouldn't have to create ntp.conf. YMMV. HTH, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
