[ntp:questions] Poll timing

Jussi Kauppinen jtkauppi at cc.hut.fi
Fri Aug 17 13:18:39 UTC 2007


Thanks to everyone answering the topic this far!

Paul.Croome at softwareag.com wrote:
> Jussi,
> 
> If you have two requirements:
>  1. You want to use NTP (or some derivative of NTP),
>  2. You want tight control over the timing of the polling,
> then I would suggest that these two requirements are mutually
> incompatible.
> 
> Paul
> 

Paul,

Why do you think there is incompatibility? If there is a function to 
send a packet involving T1-timestamp to the server, why not it cannot be 
sent at a specific moment? I mean that the daemon can wait until the 
system time gets specific value (for example wait until the second unit 
of the system time changes), and then send the packet.

Jussi




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