From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 23 17:28:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0635337B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.itga.com.au (ns1.itga.com.au [202.53.40.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E35243F85 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns1.itga.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1O1SaSc013988 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:28:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29457; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:28:36 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200302240128.MAA29457@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: ntp broadcast mode Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:28:36 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone got NTP broadcast mode working? My server has "broadcast x.y.z.255 ttl 4" line. I see the packets at the client machine with tcpdump. 12:28:12.348089 melfw.itga.com.au.ntp > 192.168.71.255.ntp: v4 bcast strat 2 poll 6 prec -28 [tos 0x10] I run ntp with "ntp -dddd -n -b -p -f " (with no ntp.conf file) and I see in the ntp debug that it is reading the broadcast NTP packet. input_handler: if=1 fd=7 length 48 from c0a847ef 192.168.71.239 receive: at 241 192.168.71.163<-192.168.71.239 restrict 00 receive: at 241 192.168.71.163<-192.168.71.239 mode 5 code 5 But the client never associates with the server. "What we have here is a failure to associate!" [Both machines are recent 4-Stable, sometime after 4.7R, tho I also fail to associate with a Solaris client.] Any clues? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message