On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > > > > > I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's > > > probably just me, > > > > No, it's not just you. NTP is useful in cases where things do care > > about time but hardware designers were too cheap to put an RTC on the > > board. > > In fact, didn't one of the netgear firewall/switch/routers end up being > famous for overloading some NTP service exactly because all the _millions_ > of routers ended up using the same (incorrect) NTP host? > > So NTP is very definitely an embedded thing too. And it's _still_ a red herring. I just booted a !CONFIG_IGMP kernel on my workstation and NTP is running just fine (as is IPv6). Even though ntpd has a configure test for multicast and can be built without multicast support at all, it isn't even necessary to build it that way -- the stock Fedora build of it works just fine. (Actually, I never managed to get ntpd to work _with_ multicast, but that's a different issue... :) -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
