ntpEntStatPktModeTable.... what is it? (NTPv4-MIB)

James Browning jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 21:08:30 UTC 2018


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> I think we answer mode 0 as a client mode.  It's probably some legacy
> stuff.
>

IIRC there never was a mode 0. In NTP0 those bits were reserved and set to
0.
Mode bits did not show up until NTP1. Before that the effective mode was
was
partially port based and partially contextual. Which is to say 123->!123
was server
mode; !123->123 was client mode; and 123->123 varied.
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