[ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

Jason bmwjason at bmwlt.com
Wed Mar 4 01:23:32 UTC 2009


David Woolley wrote:
> Terje Mathisen wrote:
> 
>>
>> OTOH 100-1000 us is in fact quite doable using standard NTP.
> 
> As I read it, the 10s of microseconds constraint applied to the whole 
> network.  The 100s of microseconds allowance was between the system and 
> UTC.
The 10s of us applies to a large subset of the total number of 
application servers, requiring them to be that close to each other. The 
100s of us applies to "accuracy" -- how close to UTC.

Jason.




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