[ntp:questions] NTP tunning for OWD measurements
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Fri Oct 26 16:32:55 UTC 2012
Brian Utterback wrote:
>
> You may not want to, but that is the way to do it. If all of your
> systems are local, you could simply use a single PPS source and fan it
> out to all of the systems. If not, then you should have a local source
> to each system. Otherwise, you should do just as you have done, and then
> look at the spread of time offsets between each of the four stratum one
> servers and the round trip times. That gives you the maximum error in
> your measurements.
He needs to use root delay as the error estimate in this case, because
it is a given of the problem that round trip times are not symmetric.
Basically, unless he can constrain the delay asymmetry to his NTP
servers, the timing error will depend on the parameter he is trying to
measure.
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