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14.17.7. Adding a Broadcast Client Address
To add a broadcast client address, that is to say, to configure a broadcast address to be monitored for broadcast
NTP
packets, make use of the
broadcastclient
command in the
ntp.conf
file.
The
broadcastclient
command takes the following form:
broadcastclient
Enables the receiving of broadcast messages. Requires authentication by default. See
Section 14.6, “Authentication Options for NTP”
.
This command configures a system to act as an
NTP
client. Systems can be both client and server at the same time.