Danny Mayer wrote: > Jan Ceuleers wrote: >> Martin Burnicki wrote: >>> I'd expect that either the kernel routed multicast packets to all interfaces >>> (isn't that what routers do with multicasts, contrarily to broadcasts?), or >>> the application would send an individual packet on each interface. >> Routers have to be told (by means of multicast protocols such as IGMP) >> which interfaces to replicate multicast packets onto. >> > > That assumes that there's a router involved. If it's just to the local > LAN then you may not have a router able to route to the other > interfaces. In this case it almost certainly have to be done on the > local server sending the packets. > > Danny Well, when you install/enable multicast routing software on the local machine this machine becomes a multicast router (kernel may have to be compiled with the right flags on some systems). Thus the local machine will be NTP server and multicast router.As I said you need the multicast routing functionality in order to be able to find the interfaces where you need to replicate to packets to.
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