[ntp:questions] Re: peer trouble ? reach going down

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Aug 7 21:00:43 UTC 2003


"David Schwartz" <davids at webmaster.com> wrote in message
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>
> "David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:APqYa.1175$HB4.10345599 at news-text.cableinet.net...
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> > Interesting - I have seen something similar on my own LAN, where there
is
> > most unlikely to be packet loss (or so I would have thought....).
None of
> > the other network stuff shows any problems - although perhaps the fact
> > that NTP uses UDP matters?  The internal stuff is polling at 64s
> > intervals.
>
>     Measure packet loss on your LAN, ideally between the same two
machines.
> Have one ping the other a hundred times, once a second. If you get a
packet
> loss of zero, then I'd be suspicious.

I got 0% packet loss for 100 packets.  What conclusions would you draw?

Thanks,
David





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