[time] peer group

[Kiss Gabor]

> >> I wonder if forming peer groups offers some benefits or not.
> >> How peering affects offset or other quality parameters?
> >> Is it worth to work on it?
> > 
> > Certainly it is worth configuring all of your local NTP servers to  
> > query each other as peers-- having at least 5 servers set up helps  
> > the NTP falseticker algorithm choose more stable clocks.  It's not  
> > going to be a big problem if you don't set them up as peers, but it  
> > will help....
> 
> It will benefit the group of servers if the servers have very little overlap in 
> server configuration, but if all 5 point to the exact same servers it provides 
> little. Make sure to set each server to a unique set of servers. This is where 
> peering provides it's benefits.

In this case there is no use setting up a peer group.
Getting very different sets of stratum 1 references seems to be problematic.
(As I wrote I manage stratum 2 pool servers.)

Thanks.

Gabor