Re: [ntp:questions] How to verify Autokey Identity Schemes?

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-12-16, Joe Smithian wrote: > I tried ntpq -c "rv assID flags" command, it shows the Identity Scheme > that the server supports regardless of what identity scheme has been > installed on the client. NTP Authentication is used to authenticate the server to the client. So you need to look a

Re: [ntp:questions] How to verify Autokey Identity Schemes?

2011-12-16 Thread Joe Smithian
Hi Steve, I am posting my questions again in text format. I hoe you can read it this time. Thank you for your comments. I tried ntpq -c "rv assID flags" command, it shows the Identity Scheme that the server supports regardless of what identity scheme has been installed on the client. Here are the

Re: [ntp:questions] Configure FreeBSD or Linux to use stepping clock?

2011-12-16 Thread David Woolley
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Dave Hart wrote: Linux might be reconfigured to use a more primitive clock that steps once per millisecond or less. Linux Kernel 2.4 used 100 Hz and 2.6 increased it to 1000 Hz? They still read the time to the full CTC resolu

Re: [ntp:questions] Configure FreeBSD or Linux to use stepping clock?

2011-12-16 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:50:08PM +, Dave Hart wrote: > Dr. Mills raised the possibility privately that either FreeBSD or > Linux might be reconfigured to use a more primitive clock that steps > once per millisecond or less. If possible and I am able to accomplish > it, my testing of these bu

Re: [ntp:questions] Large variation in NTP synchronization time

2011-12-16 Thread David J Taylor
"Joe Smithian" wrote in message news:CA+pp-gKn-z-XmvbyqJ_ZOSz2YKAE+Ng_5iRRkQ0NDXrCL=8...@mail.gmail.com... Hi all, I've written a test script to test all the symmetric and autokey authentication key types and algorithms. The scripts waits for a delay time after restarting ntpd and then runs th

Re: [ntp:questions] Question on how to Slew time in NTP (David Woolley)

2011-12-16 Thread David J Taylor
"Richard B. Gilbert" wrote in message news:c5-dnee6pqwdtnftnz2dnuvz_o2dn...@giganews.com... [] Is this something relatively new? ISTR that it still took about thirty minutes to get a reasonable facsimile of the correct time even when restarting with a good drift file. I wish I could draw a