[ntp:questions] Sub-millisecond NTP synchronization for local network

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Sat Dec 6 23:40:57 UTC 2008


Jeremy Leibs <leibs at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Is there possibly a way of configuring the maximum acceptable
> latency of a packet?  That is, as long as you know that for some
> fraction of the day (when the system is not under load) your latency
> is going to be less than some threshold, say, 2 ms, configuring the
> system to just throw away all packets with latency greater than 2
> ms?

What precisely do you mean by "the system" in this context?  The
TCP/IP stack running on the system on which NTP is running, or in NTP
itself?

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