Thanks Danny, you are very helpful. Danny Mayer wrote: > 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
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