[ntp:questions] Regarding Leap second adjustments

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Wed Dec 17 22:13:21 UTC 2008


vasanth raonaik wrote:
> 
> I am doing research on leap second adjustments in NTP. I would like to
> simulate the scenario with two machines one acting as ntp server and other

You need to specify the version of the OS and configuration options that 
affect whether or not the kernel time discipline is used.  The protocol 
doesn't specify how the local clock is handled, only what gets sent 
downstream.

> as ntp client. server should send a leap second adjustment notification to
> client and I would like to record the steps the client takes with this
> notification. Could any one please let me know where i can hard code in
> server to send the LS (leap second bit set) to send to client.
> 
> I am new to NTP please provide some pointers for understanding.

grep LEAP_ ntpd/ntp_proto.c

> 




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