Collins wrote: > I have been reading the ntpd man pages and other documentation at the > iesc but I have yet to find an explicit answer to the following > question. > > Is it possible to configure a client so that it never attempts any > communication with a server but simply monitors a multicast group for > updates? If so how? >
With broadcastclient you can specify novolley but I don't think that's available for multicastclient unless it's undocumented. You'd also need to disable authentication. This also has a disadvantage of not giving you any information on round trip time, though that should be small on a LAN. > A possibly related question: what is the behavior of ntpd if it is > started with a configuration file which specifies no servers? > Nothing. It won't do anything since it has nothing to work with. It will sit there listening for packets and never send any out itself. Why are you asking? Danny > Thanks in advance > > Collins > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
