Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread Rob
detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:45:22 +, Rob wrote: [...] I can ping it as much as I like, no loss: 1571 packets transmitted, 1571 received, 0% packet loss, time 20468ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.702/0.845/1.168/0.090 ms But when ntpd is allowed to climb to

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread detha
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:28:25 +, Rob wrote: detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:45:22 +, Rob wrote: [...] I can ping it as much as I like, no loss: 1571 packets transmitted, 1571 received, 0% packet loss, time 20468ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.702/0.845/1.168/0.090

[ntp:questions] ntp.keys content - type M, MD5, SHA1 or other?

2014-01-29 Thread ardi
Is there any difference using ntp.keys generated: a) manually via inserting key-id, type=M, and string with any lengths like: 1 M fjfjfksdflsjflkfj 2 M asdkjweiu.NEEw.RTyfsd 3 M qweddfkfd..-drftGTG 12 M QWERtrtv.444 or b) via ntp-keygen -M and using some of these keys like: cat

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread Rob
detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: It is apparent that the problem does not occur when the link is busy, but I still don't know the cause. It may also be some power-saving mechanism, for example. First step is to prove that the problem goes away when the link is kept busy with totally unrelated

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread detha
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:56:04 +, Rob wrote: detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: If keeping the link open with a ping helps, second step is to determine what times out. Run a ping from somewhere else to the server, or from the client to somewhere else. If running a ping from the client to

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread Rob
detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: What distribution and kernel are you running on the wired one? I've got a spare raspberry somewhere, would be interesting to see if I can reproduce this. raspbmc (downloaded bootstrap and installed and updated using its builtin mechanism). Linux raspbmc 3.10.21

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-29 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-01-29, Rob nom...@example.com wrote: detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: It is apparent that the problem does not occur when the link is busy, but I still don't know the cause. It may also be some power-saving mechanism, for example. First step is to prove that the problem goes away when