[ntp:questions] Re: Reach isn't 377 on peered servers

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Jan 13 03:54:53 UTC 2006


David,

Hint: Look at the flash bits and clock discipline time constant (rv 
hpoll) for the associations involved. I bet you find 10 on both machines 
and then something else has clamped down on the 64-s poll.

Dave

David J Taylor wrote:
> David L. Mills wrote:
> 
>>David.
>>
>>Depending on phasing and poll interval, it might (and does) happen
>>that during a poll interval one peer will see none, one or two polls
>>from the other peer. That is normal and does not affect the
>>synchronization function. Sometimes as the poll interval ramps up
>>more than one interval may go by without an arriving packet. In the
>>expected case where the peers are low in the stratum forest and the
>>highest reliability is needed, it probably is a good idea to clamp
>>the maxpoll to the default minpoll.
>>
>>Dave
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Thanks for that.  I can see that the phasing could make the numbers 0, 1 
> or 2 polls, just depending.  What I'm not quite so clear about with peered 
> servers is how a server can show a poll interval of 1024s against an 
> external server, and yet 64s against a peered server which is just 
> starting up, and therefore has an interval of 64s against its own external 
> servers.
> 
> It probably really means I don't understand exactly peering works!  "One 
> server can set the time of the other" is what I think I know.
> 
> 73,
> David 
> 
> 




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