Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2007-06-08, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Mark Boolootian wrote: > > >>>I'm a simple-minded dweeb looking to provide campus systems with >>>reasonably accurate clocks. If campus system clocks are within, say, >>>two seconds of one another, they'll probably let me keep my job. >>> >>>I've rummaged through the docs and mailing list, but I haven't really >>>found an answer to this "good enough" kind of question. At the moment, >>>I have a pair of NTP stratum 1 appliances, one GPS, the other CDMA. >> > > <snip> > >>>What I'd like to know is, given my desire for sub-two seconds of >>>accuracy (am i using the correct term for what i want?) am I good >>>enough to just point clients at the stratum 1 pair? >> >>You're probably okay just pointing the whole campus to your two >>servers. > > > In which case you must ensure that these two servers stay in relatively > close synchronization. > > With only two servers of equal strata the clients will not have a > clear best choice. If the servers drift too far apart you could have > cases of inter-client offsets exceeding your stated accuracy. >
I'd say that given the devices he is using, the probability of them "drifting apart" is vanishingly small. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
