Re: [ntp:questions] Failure of NIST Time Servers

2011-06-04 Thread Eugen COCA
In my opinion, transmitting the time with an offset of about 680 seconds with "... some of the systems transmitted the wrong time without this indication." (unhealthy indicator), is a bit unprofessional. Of course, it is the users' sole responsibility to configure his/her time servers in order to a

Re: [ntp:questions] Something else to play with.

2011-06-04 Thread Eugen COCA
On the first page of the manual one may read: "The M9107 GPSDO includes an extremely high-performance GPS receiver that can acquire and track up to 50 GPS signals ..." I'm just curios where you get signals from 50 satellites if the whole constellation is about 30 ... with no more than a half visib

Re: [ntp:questions] Failure of NIST Time Servers

2011-06-04 Thread David L. Mills
Eugen , The remote NIST servers do not use the ACTS driver in the distribution. They use an algorithm called lockclock that functions as a modem device driver. I assume the unhealthy indication provided in the ACTS timecode is translated to the NTP LI indicator via the local clock driver, but

Re: [ntp:questions] Something else to play with.

2011-06-04 Thread Terje Mathisen
Eugen COCA wrote: On the first page of the manual one may read: "The M9107 GPSDO includes an extremely high-performance GPS receiver that can acquire and track up to 50 GPS signals ..." I'm just curios where you get signals from 50 satellites if the whole constellation is about 30 ... with no mo