Kevin, Thanks for weighing in with your results.
I am up and running with a M$ freeware called "Dimension 4" on a 98se box. It uses the SNTP (Simple NTP) and for whatever reason, works well with the Dachstein firewall. It however, does not mention compatability with XP so - your mileage may vary. Charles S. brought up a valid point as to why I did not want the mandrake 9.0 box performing the time server duty with the others synchronizing off of it. Fairly simply, the firewall is up 24/7 while the mandrake box may get used on the occasional weekend. ***** Comments inserted in your text ****** --- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was curious, so I tried to hit my firewall without > making any changes to > its current state. > > I used a program call NetLab 1.4, freeware for > windows. It has a time snyc > function I use to keep my clocks updated. > > When I hit the main time server that worked through > the firewall - > salmon.maths.tcd.ie - my clocks are in sync. The > program has options to sync > via TCP, UDP or SNTP. When I hit the internet > server, all work except the > UDP protocol. It crashes Winsock on my winxp box. > > When I try to sync with the firewall INTERNAL IP > Address - it fails on all > EXCEPT SNTP, however that is so far off, it gave me > the date from 1994. > ****** I trust you also put in the libm and ntpsimpl packages in your firewall. If so, you and I had the same experience that 'rdate' or 'real' ntp requests to the firewall box do not produce time information. ****** > I logged on the firewall and did a date and/or > hwclock command and it shows > the correct date and time. > ****** # date # hwclock --show ****** > When I try my external IP address, it only works > with SNTP and then again it > gives me a date from 1994. > ****** Completely uninformed opinion is that the time communication between the M$ and firewall have issues. My issue with Automochron sp? resulted in a socket error. You might have enough information coming back that NetLab 1.4 reads it and decides the info means 1994. ****** > I hope this was able to help in your troubleshooting > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
