Red Hat Training

A Red Hat training course is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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.