Johnson, John-P63914 wrote: >> One instance of ntpd is all that is necessary to perform both of these > >> tasks at the same time. > > > I realize that what I am trying to do is very easily accomplished with > one > instance of ntpd. However, I assure you that the manner in which I am > trying to accomplish it is absolutely necessary for my particular > application. >
There is something here that you are not telling us. > I found a definitive answer in the code. > > ntp_io.c, line 1232 > > /* > * Check to see if we are going to use the interface > * If we don't use it we mark it to drop any packet > * received but we still must create the socket and > * bind to it. This prevents other apps binding to it > * and potentially causing problems with more than one > * process fiddling with the clock > */ > > This explains why an instance was still receiving packets from an > interface > that was not specified with '-I'. > Not quite. It's more complicated than that. There are other addresses involved like the wildcard addresses and the loopback addresses. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
