Re: [ntp:questions] Time reset

2008-03-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
D.Venu Gopal wrote: David Woolley wrote: Venu Gopal wrote: Its clear that CPU is heavily loaded which might be leading to loss of ticks. Yet to check the DMA status for CPU loading doesn't cause lost timer interrupts. (More precisely overruns.) So its the DISK I/O thats causing loss

Re: [ntp:questions] Time reset

2008-03-13 Thread Hal Murray
So its the DISK I/O thats causing loss of ticks ? My first Red Hat system defaulted to no-DMA for IDE disks. (Yes, that was a long time ago.) With that setup, it was simple to generate lots of lost timer interrupts: just keep the disk busy doing reads. (Seeks don't count. Read consecutive

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows Time with NTPv4

2008-03-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
Evandro, Evandro Menezes wrote: But doesn't symmetric association require authorization or is it only true when there's a keys file? AFAIK peer associations do require authentication configured correctly. I ask because after following this thread, I noticed that NTP running on our NAS had

Re: [ntp:questions] Time reset

2008-03-13 Thread Venu Gopal
Hal Murray wrote: So its the DISK I/O thats causing loss of ticks ? My first Red Hat system defaulted to no-DMA for IDE disks. (Yes, that was a long time ago.) With that setup, it was simple to generate lots of lost timer interrupts: just keep the disk busy doing reads. (Seeks don't

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows Time with NTPv4

2008-03-13 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Mar 13, 3:56 am, Martin Burnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default was that ntpd just dropped those requests, i.e. didn't send a response at all, in which case the w32time clients were unable to synchronize to the NTP server, unless they were reconfigured correctly to send client

Re: [ntp:questions] May sound like a newbe question, but....

2008-03-13 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Mar 12, 11:33 am, Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may  not belong on time.microsoft.com but does on microsoft by making it hard to use any other server. Using another NTP server isn't hard on Windows, in fact it is dead simple and easier than configuring the reference ntpd implementation,

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows Time with NTPv4

2008-03-13 Thread Evandro Menezes
On Mar 13, 3:56 am, Martin Burnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the Windows system run ntpd or w32time? If they run ntpd then authentication could be configured correctly. I don't know how any version of w32time could be configured to support NTP's symmetric keys or even autokey. They run

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows Time with NTPv4

2008-03-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
Ryan Malayter wrote: On Mar 13, 3:56 am, Martin Burnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default was that ntpd just dropped those requests, i.e. didn't send a response at all, in which case the w32time clients were unable to synchronize to the NTP server, unless they were reconfigured correctly

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows Time with NTPv4

2008-03-13 Thread David L. Mills
Evandro, Remember, enable/disable auth has nothing to do with authentication itself, just whether new associations can be mobilized if no authentication is used. In your case a symmetric passive association was apparently mobilized and began sending mode-2 packets just as if a legitimate peer

Re: [ntp:questions] 1 Machine, 2 NICs, 2 Instances of ntpd; Possible?

2008-03-13 Thread Danny Mayer
Maarten Wiltink wrote: As a software guy, I've wondered before about the monolithic nature of the NTP package. Splitting it into a client and server part might make some people (think OpenBSD) very happy. The objection when raised earlier was that the server may be asked for statistics about

Re: [ntp:questions] 1 Machine, 2 NICs, 2 Instances of ntpd; Possible?

2008-03-13 Thread Danny Mayer
Johnson, John-P63914 wrote: One instance of ntpd is all that is necessary to perform both of these tasks at the same time. I realize that what I am trying to do is very easily accomplished with one instance of ntpd. However, I assure you that the manner in which I am trying to