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22.16.7. 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 22.6, “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.

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