Hello all We're testing a DCF77 appliance box (EMC professional from www.gude.info), which every now and the looses its connection to the DCF77 signal and switches over to quartz mode. Upon doing this, our test switch looses its sync to it, and considers it a stratum 11 server instead of a stratum 1. The switch also has configured an "ordinary" stratum 5 windows-server, and it seems to me that it uses this one, when the appliance box is seen as being stratum 11 (and syslog says the switch lost ntp-sync to the stratum 11 appliance box, but syncs back when the DCF77 signal is restored).
Will a switch allways use the lower stratum server? Can i stop the switch from synching with other servers (when the dcf box looses its signal and runs in the otherwise reliable quarts-mode), while still having a backup ntp server configured in case the appliance bos goes down? Is a constant sync important or is it ok for the switch to synch with different servers 'along the way'? I thank you all for your kindness so far. /Towli - Denmark _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
