Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> [] >>> Have you considered reinstalling Windows XP? >> >> No, because this is a Vista testbed, and the objective is to get NTP >> working here as well as it does on all the other Windows PC systems >> (NT4, 2000, XP e

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
David J Taylor wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > [] >> Have you considered reinstalling Windows XP? > > No, because this is a Vista testbed, and the objective is to get NTP > working here as well as it does on all the other Windows PC systems (NT4, > 2000, XP etc.). > > David > > My cond

Re: [ntp:questions] poll interval - Clarification! - RFC compliancequestion

2008-06-20 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2008-06-17, Anton Persson A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The poll interval is 64 to 1024, seconds. ntpd starts up, locks on >> target, stays synchronized for a while, then we pull the plug. >What are you trying to prove by "pulling the plug"? >> T

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > Have you considered reinstalling Windows XP? No, because this is a Vista testbed, and the objective is to get NTP working here as well as it does on all the other Windows PC systems (NT4, 2000, XP etc.). David ___ que

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-20 Thread Brian Utterback
Hal Murray wrote: > [drift > 500 ppm] > >> It's almost certainly a hardware problem. Ntpd is telling you that the >> clock is gaining, or losing, more than about 43 seconds (500 parts per >> million) per day. 500 PPM is the maximum that ntpd can handle. > > It could easily be a software screw

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
David J Taylor wrote: > David Woolley wrote: >> David J Taylor wrote: >>> Yesterday I undated my Windows Vista system to Service Pack 1, and >>> whilst NTP initially appeared to work correctly, it soon developed >>> an oscillating state. See: >>> >>> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-Vi

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Yesterday I undated my Windows Vista system to Service Pack 1, and >> whilst NTP initially appeared to work correctly, it soon developed >> an oscillating state. See: >> >> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-Vista.html > > They look like da

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: [] > Can I just confirm that this system is connected to its time sources > only by ethernet, and that that ethernet has low latency drivers? I meant to comment that it has no special Ethernet drivers, just what comes with Windows Vista. But as the steps are sometimes 50msec

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-20 Thread Hal Murray
[drift > 500 ppm] >It's almost certainly a hardware problem. Ntpd is telling you that the >clock is gaining, or losing, more than about 43 seconds (500 parts per >million) per day. 500 PPM is the maximum that ntpd can handle. It could easily be a software screwup. Unless you know it works on

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David Woolley
David J Taylor wrote: > Yesterday I undated my Windows Vista system to Service Pack 1, and whilst > NTP initially appeared to work correctly, it soon developed an oscillating > state. See: > > http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-Vista.html They look like damped oscillations, so the qu

[ntp:questions] NTP on Windows Vista

2008-06-20 Thread David J Taylor
Yesterday I undated my Windows Vista system to Service Pack 1, and whilst NTP initially appeared to work correctly, it soon developed an oscillating state. See: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/NTP-on-Windows-Vista.html Could one of the NTP experts suggest why initial stability should degenerate