Re: pppd & ntpd
walter harms wrote:
> It seems that ntpd is scanning the interfaces from time to time because
> it notice sometimes that ppp0 is there and stays for a while. That means
> if someone is testing and it works, it may work again if the redail is
> soon enought (interface not droped yet) but if it takes a bit longer
> (e.g. you have a phonecall) it does not work anymore.
Good that it's rescanning from time to time (probably 10 minute
intervals or so, I'd guess), but that's just a band-aid over a design
flaw in the daemon. If the system architecture really requires all
those separate bound sockets, then it should be listening on a routing
socket to get a timely notification of interfaces coming and going, and
using a scan only as a back-up in case a message gets lost (the kernel's
writes into routing socket listeners are non-blocking and thus not
entirely reliable under stress).
Of course, if the system architecture doesn't require a zillion open
sockets, then that's even better.
In any event, not really a pppd issue, but rather an ntpd/xntpd issue.
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James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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