April wrote: > Trying to understand multicasting from the client/host perspective .. > > What client software is needed?
Apart from the O/S and NTP? None. > What configurations are required? There's a NTP system broadcasting on the specified multicast address and that you've told the client to listen on that multicast address. > Is there web based client, and any configuraton required? Huh? > How a client start using a typical multicast service? They specify the multicast address in their configuration file. > How does a client/host works behind the scene to get multicast service, > in conjunction with what have been set up on the router and switch? > It doesn't. It's purely automatic. NTP does the work. > Any good reference on this, I mean from client/host perspective, or > something that provide the"whole" picture, including protocol, router, > switch, and client/host? > Have you looked at the support pages at: http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/ Danny > _______________________________________________ > 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
