ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

[W. D.]

Hi Danny,

Reply below...

At 19:02 8/30/2004, Danny Mayer wrote:
>At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote:
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: ntpd 4.2.0a at 1.1219-o Mon Aug 30 14:14:07 GMT
>>2004 (1)
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: precision = 4.191 usec
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface dc0,
>>fe80:1::2a0:ccff:fe50:e7c7#123
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface dc0, 192.168.2.177#123
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, ::1#123
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, fe80:3::1#123
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#123
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: kernel time sync status 2040
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from
>>/etc/ntp.drift
>>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Unable to listen for broadcasts, no broadcast
>>interfaces available
>
>What does ifconfig -a tell you?


dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe50:e7c7%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 192.168.2.177 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
	ether 00:a0:cc:50:e7:c7
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500


>
>Danny
>
>>The Windows computer generating the Tardis NTP broadcasts is
>>at IP address: 192.168.2.119.  Does anyone have any idea
>>why it's not picking up these broadcasts?
>
>Also, that's not a broadcast address as I recall.

It's the internal, NAT address, that my DHCP server/router
assigned to the Windows box that is sending out NTP
broadcast signals on port 123.

>
>>Somewhere in here I also changed the CMOS Real Time Clock to
>>UTC, and reconfigured for my local time in /stand/sysinstall
>>
>>Now what?  How do I get the program to 'hear' the
>>broadcasts?
>
>See above.
>
>Danny