Danny Mayer wrote: > John Vossler wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I have a new system running Solaris 10 set up as an NTP server. IT is >> synchronizing correctly but I cannot get it to multicast on any >> interface except the systems primary Ethernet interface, bge0. I need >> it to multicast on interfaces bge1-bge3 and ce0 - ce7. >> >> Client systems reside on the network segments on these other interfaces. >> >> Anyone have any suggestions on getting the server to multicast on these >> other interfaces? >> >> John > > Are you talking about outgoing packets to a multicast address? I think > that there may be some bugs in that area since the addresses are limited > and choosing an outgoing address becomes an issue and it will only send > it out on one address. I'm not sure if it's possible to set up a server > (at least not easily) to send via different interfaces. It is. But on a multihomed server the server must have multicast routing functionality. Either this is already provided in the kernel or you need to run an mcast-routing daemon like mrouted, zebra or others. The ntpd setup is not different on multihomed hosts. Just the multicast routing must be working.
> > To do this correctly you need to be able to set up a different multicast > address to use and associate it with a particular server address for > each interface. NO - see above. > The only way that I can think of to accomplish this is > to be able to specify a specific binding address in the config file. We > would have to add that as an optional parameter to the broadcast directive. > not needed. > Danny Frank _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions