[ntp:questions] ntp-dev: PPS is a falseticker?

Rob nomail at example.com
Sat Jun 14 17:52:43 UTC 2014


mike cook <michael.cook at sfr.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 14 juin 2014 à 16:56, Rob a écrit :
>> 
>>> By the way, you can have more than one server marked prefer.
>> 
>> So the solution is to mark everything but the PPS server marked prefer?
>> What is the value of that?
>
> The documentation, although a bit long in the tooth, does not recommend multiple preferred peers:-
> "While the rules do not forbid it, it does not seem useful to designate more than one peer as preferred, since the additional complexities to mitigate among them do not seem justified from on-air experience."

I only need a setup that remains working when one or two of the external
servers quit.  I do not need any "prefer" at all, but it seems the PPS
driver does.  For whatever reason.

> So while not being categoric about it, it looks like assigning multiple prefer peers may have some merit.

Yes, I think this is what I will do.  But I call it a workaround for a bug.



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