[ntp:questions] Re: Known asymmetry (DSL) compensation

John Pettitt jpp at cloudview.com
Mon Feb 14 19:58:37 UTC 2005


David J Taylor wrote:
> John Pettitt wrote:
> 
>>I know it's not possible to know or compensate for all asymmetry in
>>the packets between two machines.  However where there is a fixed,
>>known, asymmetry - like on a DSL line shouldn't it be possible to
>>calculate a fudge factor?
> 
> 
> Isn't there a "fudge" command you can apply to a server exactly to provide 
> a fixed offset?  I belive the radio-clock people need to do this to 
> compensate for receiver bandwidth and propagation delays.
> 
> Cheers,
> David 
> 
> 

The time1 fudge provides a offset to correct for some systemic error in 
my ref clock - my ref clock isn't in error, the GPS 18 is spec says +/- 
1us for the PPS signal, so I don't want to fudge my ref time.  I think 
what I need to do is fudge the network time calculation to account for 
the known asymmetry.

John



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