[ntp:questions] NTP v3 server, v4 client can't synch
Romain at ntp.org
Romain at ntp.org
Wed Sep 9 17:58:34 UTC 2009
In <MfHpm.77193$OO7.45602 at text.news.virginmedia.com> "David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.not-this-part.nor-this.co.uk.invalid> writes:
| Get the host machine synced with NTP, and let VMware handle the timing for
| the client OS. There is a VMware paper on time syncing IIRC. The
| timekeeping won't be wonderful - perhaps to within a second or two?
Thanks for the followup.
However, I should clarify. The customer is using the VM as their
NTP server. The APM device is dedicated hardware, so it doesn't
have a VMware host that it would sync against.
(And of course, there is a fundamental challenge with attempting
to acquire network metrics like jitter using a VM, unless you have
some clever mechanism to timestamp network packets independently
of the VM's execution latency...)
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