[ntp:questions] Re: information needed on Step/Slew

David Woolley david at djwhome.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 27 20:28:15 UTC 2006


In article <3BE48DD0EC7D3948BC183931D9150C210438794E at ii0015exch001u.iprc.lucent.com>,
suhasp at lucent.com (P B, Suhas Suhas) wrote:
 
>     I wanted to know what exactly Step/Slew mean in NTP . Whenever NTP clock
> steps, does it do incrementally means does it change the time at one go . Is

In one *step*.  However, there is a delay of many minutes before this to
confirm that the step is really necessary.  It's essentially considered
error recovery, which is why it is probably a bad idea for you to make
it more common by reducing the step threshold.




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