[ntp:questions] Re: Philosophical question about strata

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Oct 14 08:26:05 UTC 2005


At 6:30 AM +0000 2005-10-14, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

>  Question to the hard-core ntp jocks: Would anything break within the
>  internal of ntp if the stratum of a reference clock were to be
>  forcefully changed from the traditional stratum-1 for a correctly
>  running reference to, say, stratum-5 for a gps with really crummy EPE
>  that might be giving good time, but then again might not?

	Stratum 5 would not be an appropriate number for a machine whose 
refclock has wigged out.  Stratum 16 would be more appropriate in 
that case.

	But it would definitely be good if the GPS refclock drivers could 
be updated to consider additional information such as EPE or HDOP, so 
that they would be more likely to know when their information is good 
and when it is not.

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