[ntp:questions] Polling interval in FreeBSD vs. Windows

Dave Hart davehart at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 23:50:46 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 22:34 UTC, Edward T. Mischanko
<etm1962 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Why in ...4.2.7p116 is it that I can set minpoll to 3 and poll every 8
> seconds in Windows, but when I try the same thing for my referrence clock in
> FreeBSD, it will poll no sooner than 16 seconds.

Presumably because this was changed at some point after the version of
ntpd that your FreeBSD box uses.

Cheers,
Dave Hart



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