On Sonntag, 12. März 2023 12:08:52 CET Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2023-03-12 10:58, mh@mike.franken.de wrote:

>

[...]

> >

> > You still misunderstand my intentions. I don't want anything to be changed

> > or

 "fixed". I want to understand, why things are as they are - mostly to

> > implement my things in a better or more conformable way.

> > And using something from a script/module, that can never exist, seemed

> > senseless to me, so I tried to verify, if it is senseless or my

> > understanding

 is wrong.

>

>

> I don't understand what is going on, but let me say something I heard

> somewhere long ago.

>

> It was the idea that the network administrator (on an enterprise

> building, say), would install a time server, and wanted this server to

> be published via DHCP so that all machines in the building would know

> about it and sync to it.


Thx for your answer, but I have a working setup with systemd-timesyncd and a Networker dispatcher script for DHCP connections.

The following website has an example:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Dynamically_set_NTP_servers_received_via_DHCP_with_systemd-timesyncd


I observed, though, that for static interface configurations this won't work, because nm doesn't have an ntp server address for the connection. So I tried to find out, what would be the best way to configure this. During my research I came across nm and netconfig config files and tried to understand, how they are playing together, and if I could make use of any setting they provide for static interface settings.


[...]


>      An automatic Domain Time client with DHCP enabled will broadcast to

> locate a DHCP Server. Note that DHCP broadcasts usually do not cross

> routers.


AFAIK systemd-timesyncd doesn't do this.


>

> --

> Cheers / Saludos,

>

>         Carlos E. R.

>         (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

>


Bye.

Michael.