[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#409170: ntp does not react to multicast or broadcast ntp packets

[Joerg Dorchain]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:31:49PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:43:55PM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> > Addendum:
> > 
> > With the nopeer option removed from the default restrict statement,
> > multicast works as expected.
> 
> So this was just a configuration error?

Not solely. The multicast socket was not open with eth0.
> 
> > The open question for me now is, why is there a difference between using
> > eth0 directly and br0?
> 
> I have no idea, but I assume this is a kernel problem?

Hm, not necessarily. Something behaves different with eth0 and br0. I'll
try to dig into this more deeply. But as it works-for-me-now(tm), my
boss will most likely adjust my priority list.

Bye,

Joerg
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