[ntp:questions] Odd reachability with local clock on XP

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Thu Oct 10 22:18:59 UTC 2013


On 10/10/13 16:57, mike cook wrote:
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> Well, that isn't as easy as it sounds because you get different offsets for each of the associations and you have do the sums yourself. NTP does it for you in calculating the system clocks' drift rate. It shouldn't matter whether you let NTP discipline the system clock or not. That is not something that I have tried though. I'll start up a raspberry pi and check it out.
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The system clock and the "local clock" are the same thing.

The application here specifically requires that the system clock not be 
disciplined.  Ideally it would require ntpd to maintain a virtual system 
clock (i.e.  maintain the offset from the actual system clock to the one 
used by ntpd).



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