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SubjectRe: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features
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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



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