[ntp:questions] How does NTP calculate peer accuracy?

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Tue May 6 23:31:48 UTC 2008


Serge,

I had proposed to the developer's group to unify the commands, but found 
a frosty reception. As evident, I don't usually muck around in the I/O 
code. It might help if you posted a bug report on the issue.

Dave

Serge Bets wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
>  On Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 3:13:05 +0000, David L. Mills wrote:
> 
> 
>>The manycast server will not respond unless it is synchronized to
>>something. I modified that for the same terms as orphan broadcast and
>>the players now happily play ball.
> 
> 
> Excellent! Thank you very much, David, I'll try the next snapshot.
> 
> 
> BTW, why is manycast only designed to use multicast group addresses, and
> not also broadcast addresses? I see the code and the doc both requiring
> type m "multicast address (IPv4 class D)" for those commands, but don't
> understand why broadcast IP is impossible. Something like:
> 
> | manycastclient 192.168.7.255 key 4 iburst
> | manycastserver 192.168.7.255
> 
> prints to syslog:
> 
> | attempt to configure invalid address 192.168.7.255
> 
> 
> Cordialement, Serge.




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