On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:39, A C <agcarver+...@acarver.net> wrote: > I did have a question about the debug data out of -D2. What does the "head" > parameter indicate in a poll_update? I notice that most of the time head is > zero but once in a while it's something else. The log of the debug data > shows it's gone over 500 a couple times. > > This one is zero, I lost the bigger one which >> >> poll_update: at 3966 127.127.22.1 poll 4 burst 0 retry 0 head 0 early 2 >> next 16
This is the transmit headway, reported by the "rv <associd>" or "rv &1" (or &2 for second association, etc.) as headway= See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/rate.html#guard for an explanation. This is the output or transmit counter described. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
