Re: [ntp:questions] Synching to a Legacy System as an External Clock Reference

2007-05-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> writes: michael> VxWorks 5.4 and Radstone PPC1A We haven't had anybody actively maintaining the VxWorks code in a while. I do not know what versions of VxWorks were supposed to be working with NTP and which ones wer

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moe Trin) writes: >The Apple Rendezvous (renamed 'Bonjour' as a result of trademark Thanks for the scuttlebutt about Rendezvous. > Why are you allowing your users to screw with system configuration > files? Not anytime I call the shots. I'm a strong advocate of using r

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Moe Trin
On Tue, 22 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.protocols.time.ntp, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >I just watched a Google Talk series video about Bonjour, their >zero-configuration hack. The Apple Rendezvous (renamed 'Bonjour' as a result of trademark violation),

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2007-05-23, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Looking at the usage graphs of the pools, there are only 2-6 million > pools users. That probably accounts for most of the ntp users in the > world. The current estimates are over 400 million internet-co

Re: [ntp:questions] large dispersion

2007-05-23 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Dave wrote: > I'm experiencing large values of dispersion when I use 'ntpq -p': > > 3:22pm:ntp>ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay > offsetdisp > == > *10.2.100.10 .GPS.

Re: [ntp:questions] Synching to a Legacy System as an External Clock Reference

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 18, 10:39 pm, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Harlan> Michael, What is the old legacy system of which you speak? > > I mean OS/hardware. > > H VxWorks 5.4 and Radstone PPC1A _

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Multicast associations can not compensate for changing network > conditions at each poll. I'm picturing a second class of home user or small business that would be very happy to have their computers all within a second of the correct time and within

[ntp:questions] large dispersion

2007-05-23 Thread Dave
I'm experiencing large values of dispersion when I use 'ntpq -p': 3:22pm:ntp>ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offsetdisp == *10.2.100.10 .GPS.1 u 25 64 377

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Some mode that uses multicast for the timekeeping itself seems to me > would be the lowest impact way to serve the millions of home systems. > It just seems too tantalizing to pass up. There are a few things to consider about Multicast: 1. Multicast associations ca

[ntp:questions] Simplified Manycast configuration

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
I had a couple of extranenous lines in the previous version of these files: # Minimal ntp.conf for Manycasting Client (on 224.0.1.1) driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift keys/etc/ntp.keys trustedkey 1 manycastclient 224.0.1.1 key 1 # Minimal ntp.conf for Manycasting Server (on 224.0.1.1) d

Re: [ntp:questions] zeroconf for ntpd?

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Multicast and Manycast modes are completely different; I believe that > you may be confusing the two. Yea, I had assumed both modes used multicast for the timekeeping. Thanks for the explanation. Some mode that uses multicast for the timekeeping itsel