On 2011-05-17, Frank Alsop <feal...@yahoo.com> wrote: > We have a relatively small network and are trying to use ntp > peering and orphan mode and I have a couple of questions. I have read > the info at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/orphan.html
That is the documentation for the current ntp-dev release. Please use the documentation shipped with your version of NTP or the documentation archived at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4 > but I am having trouble figuring out the correct "tos orphan" statement we > should use. > > We have a time source at stratum 1. > We have 4 "peers" at stratum 2 > We have multiple nodes at stratum 3 > We have multiple nodes at stratum 4 > > So, in our ntp.conf file for the 4 stratum 2 "peered" nodes, we have > "tos orphan 4". At the website referred to above, we could infer that > we need to use "tos orphan 5". What stratum should we use in our > orphan statement? 5 is the default orphan stratum. Use at least that (i.e. >= 5). > Also, we are using 4.2.4p7. At the following website, > you could infer that we need a newer rev of ntp. > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/OrphanMode > > This page seems to indicate we need at least 4.2.5p101, but at least > to me, isn't perfectly clear. The current stable release is NTP-4.2.6p3 and you are using NTP-4.2.4p7. On the surface it does not look like there's much difference between these two versions. But there is; substantial changes were made in the 4.2.5* development series. Here's how you should be reading these versions: NTP-4.2.4p7 == NTP-4 v2.4.7 NTP-4.2.6p3 == NTP-4 v2.6.3 If you want to use Orphan Mode you should upgrade to the current stable release. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
