Werner Siedenburg wrote: > Hello! In Mr. Mills' book I saw some interesting "wedge scattergrams". > I have some questions about them: > > 1. What is the exact use of these scattergrams? > Mr. Mills writes that "the shape of the wedge reveals intimate details about > the network path characteristics". How? The only thing I notice: The further > left the > apex of the scattergram is, the better (because of lower delay). What else > can you see > in them? > > > 2. I understand that "under low traffic conditions, the points are > concentrated about the apex of the wedge and begin to extend rightward along > the limb lines as > network traffic increases". > > But why is the most accurate offset measured at the lowest delay? <snip>
Because the maximum error in transmitting time from server to client is one half of the round trip delay! It's usually better but can't be any worse. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
