[ntp:questions] NTP Third party client on Windows OS ?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Mon Sep 24 01:25:26 UTC 2007


Evandro Menezes wrote:
> On Sep 18, 10:58 am, Evandro Menezes <evan... at mailinator.com> wrote:
> 
>> What I see is that with NTP the time drifts by .128s quite quickly and
>> as soon as the stepout limit of 900s expires, time is stepped by
>> about .5s.
> 
> Here's what I mean: http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/8264/peerstatsde3.png
> (the flat line is for the time that the system was shutdown).
> 
> I wish that there were a way to run W32TIME and NTP at the same time
> so that I could get the same chart using NTP Monitor, but for
> W32TIME...

w32time does not support mode 6 and mode 7 packets so it makes no
difference. Meinberg's NTP Monitor uses those modes to fetch the
required data. w32time is only an SNTP server and is limited in what it
can respond to.

Danny



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