This is an educational project, aimed at understanding how to interact with platform-specific multiplexing APIs (epoll, kqueue) to implement a more performant client-server architecture.
- A client that requests timestamp seconds
- A server which sends system time in response
- Both are IPv4 & IPv6 compatible and use multiplexing
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
Requires a C++14 compiler.
Server:
ntp-server [<port number>]
E.g. ./ntp-server 8080
Client:
ntp-client [<server hostname or address> [<server port>]]
E.g. ./ntp-client localhost 8080, ntp-client
Available commands are ask and quit.
Tested by hand on Linux 4.12 and FreeBSD 12.0.
Ilya Bizyaev, 2019 (me@ilyabiz.com)
Licensed under MIT terms.