What is a "WAN client"?
So not remote clients on the internet or over a VPN for example, but a client on an upstream private network.A client that is not in the same LAN network as the router is.
So not remote clients on the internet or over a VPN for example, but a client on an upstream private network.
AFAICT all you need to do is add an ACCEPT rule to the INPUT table, or alternatively just create a port forwarding rule.
If you are talking about remote access from the internet that would not be a good idea. You could lock down the source IP address if the remote client's IP doesn't change. But a plastic router running an NTP server connected to a domestic internet feed is never going to as good as something like time.cloudflare.com or time.windows.com.A pc, or PCs on another remote network, that has no VPN whatsoever to this network, ...
If you are talking about remote access from the internet that would not be a good idea. You could lock down the source IP address if the remote client's IP doesn't change. But a plastic router running an NTP server connected to a domestic internet feed is never going to as good as something like time.cloudflare.com or time.windows.com.
well, if they're looking for ways to synchronise 2 geographically disparate computers/networks/systems, there's always the option of using the time from the biggest ntp pool of Stratum 1 atomic clocks that I'm aware of and that we're all under and have access to: the GPS/GLONASS constellations. if his computer and the other computer can reliably see the sky, he can get GPS receivers for them both and derive clock from the GPS signals they each receive.Why not use time.cloudflare.com and time.windows.com?
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