On 2011-02-11, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Chandan Laskar <chandan.las...@itc.in> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We are planing to deploy Network Time Server in our Organization. >> >> According to the architecture , Stratum 2 server will be responsible to >> provide correct time to Stratum 3 server and client ( Other servers) will >> synchronize with Stratum 3 server for obtaining correct time. Stratum 2 >> server will synchronize with Stratum 1 server. >> >> We will use NTP 4.2.6p3 >> >> Is it mandatory to open UDP port 123 between Stratum 2 and Stratum 3
[snip] > ... "Why?" what is the reason for not using 123? You were not clear about who controls which server(s). > Broadcast might solve this problem. If you can use broadcast then you > are not using 123. All ntpd modes use UDP/123 as the source and destination address. Broadcast clients listen to the broadcast address to discover servers. Unicast clients poll a time server at a designated IP address. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
