Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.org's ntpd not to set the hardware clock

2012-09-13 Thread David Woolley
Ivan Shmakov wrote: I wonder, how do I configure ntpd(8) (as of the Debian Wheezy ntp package [1]) /not/ to touch the hardware clock? ntpd does not set the hardware clock. That is done by the Linux kernel, when the clock is disciplined by anything. It's a long time since I

[ntp:questions] ntp.org's ntpd not to set the hardware clock

2012-09-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
I wonder, how do I configure ntpd(8) (as of the Debian Wheezy ntp package [1]) /not/ to touch the hardware clock? [1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ntp -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sfd.am-1.org/ ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.org's ntpd not to set the hardware clock

2012-09-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid writes: Ivan Shmakov wrote: I wonder, how do I configure ntpd(8) (as of the Debian Wheezy ntp package [1]) /not/ to touch the hardware clock? ntpd does not set the hardware clock. That is done by the Linux kernel, when the clock is

[ntp:questions] FreeBSD ntpd 4.2.7p303 (ntp-devel port) unexpected dying

2012-09-13 Thread Ron Hahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colleagues, Upgraded to ntpd 4.2.7p303 from p295 two days ago and twice now it has died unexpected with the following error: 12 Sep 23:40:26 ntpd[83434]: 86.47.187.7 local addr 172.16.2.10 - null 12 Sep 23:40:48 ntpd[83434]: ntp_monitor.c:136:

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing throughput in NTP servers

2012-09-13 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: Anyone knows if there are any available Linux based S/W to test the throughput of NTP servers? I.E: packets per second? % of lost packets etc? I've used tcpdump and tcpreplay to measure the maximum packet

Re: [ntp:questions] FreeBSD ntpd 4.2.7p303 (ntp-devel port) unexpected dying

2012-09-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
Ron Hahn writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colleagues, Upgraded to ntpd 4.2.7p303 from p295 two days ago and twice now it has died unexpected with the following error: 12 Sep 23:40:26 ntpd[83434]: 86.47.187.7 local addr 172.16.2.10 - null 12 Sep 23:40:48