[ntp:questions] Compensating for asymmetric delay on a per-peer/server basis?

Paul tik-tok at bodosom.net
Thu Sep 11 18:11:28 UTC 2014


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Rob <nomail at example.com> wrote:
> That does not work.  The asymmetry is not caused by traffic but by
> modem parameters.

The asymmetry is caused by asymmetric latency which is caused (for our
purposes) by asymmetric line speeds.  Traffic shaping can change
various things (depending on where you do it) including effective line
speed (packets/s not bits/s).

Perhaps shaping UDP is too hard.


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