In article <mbinbu$a5r$1...@dont-email.me>, William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote: >The complaint of the ntpd people is not the stability of the machine >itself, but the stability of the network, where for example A could use >B and B use A in determining its own time. Is the whole network stable >under this kind of loop. And what happens to B when A suddenly begins to >slew at 2000PPM?
This cannot happen (at least in my implementation). If A uses B as ref clock and B uses A then you the same effect as a routing loop in a distance vector routing protocol: counting to infinity. In the case of NTP, infinity is 16 hops. After that both A and B consider each other unusable. -- We just programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over... they were index linked to the [...] stock market prices you see, so that we'd be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to be able to afford our rather expensive services again. -- Slartibartfast in THHGTTG _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
