Hal, Not any more. Current NTPv4 sends the burst at 2-s intervals, mainly to coordinate with Autokey opportunities and reduce the total number of packets.
Dave Hal Murray wrote: >>I'll probably quite easily display my profound NTP ignorance here :) >>But if there is assymetric delay stemming from an ARP resolution, >>won't it affect all the packets in the burst? Unless the tranmission >>time of the burst getting out of NTP is >> the ARP resolution time, >>the entire burst is going to be blocked waiting on the ARP resolution. > > > The "burst" is sent at 1 second intervals. There should be lots of > time for all the switches and routers to get their act in gear. > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions