On Saturday 20 August 2005 9:04 pm, John Schwartzman wrote:
When I setup xntp using Yast there is a tremendous amount of traffic. Using tcpdump I see the following continuously repeated:
20:44:53.282811 arp who-has Intrepid.Forte tell 192.168.2.1 20:44:53.282842 arp reply Intrepid.Forte is-at 00:80:ad:c1:35:41 20:44:54.226757 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:54.253991 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 20:44:56.228501 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:56.259432 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 20:44:58.230146 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:58.279255 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22
As you can see, I'm using the server louie.udel.edu.ntp and I seem to be submitting my request again and again at 2s intervals.
I'd like to use xntp -q to set the time on startup and then quit, but I'm not sure how to accomplish this. Would I need to change NCPD_OPTS="" to NCPD_OPTS="-q" in /etc/sysconfig/plptools so that it will be used by /etc/init.d/ncpd?
Another option would be to change minpoll, but I thought the default was 64s, not 2s.
Can anyone explain how to accomplish this using both methods?
There's a ton of documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc/html/index.html Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)