Aggarwal Vivek-Q4997C wrote: > Hi > Iam planning to have NTP Server for something around 50,000 Clients in > the Network > > Can Anyone guide me in dimensioning the NTP Server. What are the > guidelines that I should take care for dimensioning the NTP Server >
I'd probably set up 3 stratum 1 servers at each site and then use multicast to distribute the NTP packets to the clients. The exact configuration can depend a great deal on what the clients need in the way of accuracy and how the network is laid out. While in general network topology is not important to NTP you can reduce the error budget by keeping the network stable. > Also can I two NTP Servers running in active-stand by or in Load > balancing scenario in the same network load-balancing has no meaning to NTP. You send a NTP packet and the server sends a response. You don't need anything in standby, just include all of the relevant servers in the DNS and NTP will do the rest. With the new pool conf option you can have it use all of the addresses listed in the DNS. This is not different from DNS which has no use for a load balancer or standby either. Danny > Regards > Vivek Aggarwal _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions