Re: [ntp:questions] Bug in autokey configuration procedure?

2006-11-24 Thread mills
Ulrich, The material you reference is derived from the base documentation at www.ntp.org, which is maintained by me and not by the ISC corps. Is the bug you found present in the base documentation? If you are updating the FAQ, the base documentation should be your primary reference. Dave Ulri

Re: [ntp:questions] Stabilizing the drift file?

2006-11-24 Thread David L. Mills
Juergen, Assuming your system specification allows for up to 10 ms measurement error over two seconds, your script can result in a maximum frequency error of 5000 PPM. Golly. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Dave. > > >>This could be avoided by forcefully setting the clock at initial >>sta

Re: [ntp:questions] xntpd related querries

2006-11-24 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Hal Murray wrote: >>I've never heard of anyone using NTP via a proxy. As far as I know, you >>must send a request to an NTP server and the server will send a reply. >>Your system must send at least five requests to the server and receive >>five replies before it can start disciplining your clo

Re: [ntp:questions] Stabilizing the drift file?

2006-11-24 Thread Hal Murray
>a) Measure the drift with my script for 2 seconds >So ntpd can start its operation with (almost) no initial offset and a >drift that is +-2ppm away from the long-term value. Are you sure that is going to work correctly? If one of those readings is off by 5 microseconds, that will turn into an

Re: [ntp:questions] xntpd related querries

2006-11-24 Thread Hal Murray
>I've never heard of anyone using NTP via a proxy. As far as I know, you >must send a request to an NTP server and the server will send a reply. >Your system must send at least five requests to the server and receive >five replies before it can start disciplining your clock. I'm not sure what

Re: [ntp:questions] xntpd related querries

2006-11-24 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
lulu wrote: > Hi Richard , > This time connected the system to the internet but it is through a > proxy. > And taken some public NTP server ( stratum -2) as a server for the > System A. > so inserted a line > > server > > But still it is not showing that it is synchronising to something. >

Re: [ntp:questions] Stabilizing the drift file?

2006-11-24 Thread Juergen . Salm
Hi Dave. > This could be avoided by forcefully setting the clock at initial > startup That's exactly what we do. You have to know that Robert an I are working on the same project. Robert is a systems engineer of the platform we use to build our device. The requirements of max. 100ms external of

Re: [ntp:questions] xntpd related querries

2006-11-24 Thread lulu
Hi Richard , This time connected the system to the internet but it is through a proxy. And taken some public NTP server ( stratum -2) as a server for the System A. so inserted a line server But still it is not showing that it is synchronising to something. I think the proxy setting is not a