[ntp:questions] Is a doubling of I/O bytes expected for NTP over Wi-Fi?

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Tue Nov 26 12:26:59 UTC 2013


On 26/11/2013 12:17, Rob wrote:
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> On the receive side there is also broadcast traffic.  This includes
> both the usual 255.255.255.255 and subnet-broadcast traffic and the ARP
> requests, DHCP requests, etc seen on the network.
>
> On a larger network this can be considerably higher than what you see.

Thanks, Rob.  This is actually q relatively small network - perhaps 20 
active devices - but the Wi-Fi side may be noisier than the LAN side. 
I've stopped NTP on one Raspberry Pi to see what activity is then reported.

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Cheers,
David
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