Re: [ntp:questions] DCF77 support in the Windows NTP port?

2011-01-24 Thread David J Taylor
It looks very much same as a Conrad module. On NetBSD I use radioclkd2 with the shm driver. From here DCF77 was not very reliable and faded. I replaced xtal and aerial with 60kHz versions. David Thanks, David. Useful though that may be, I don't think it applies to the Windows port.

Re: [ntp:questions] DCF77 support in the Windows NTP port?

2011-01-24 Thread David J Taylor
The Windows port of ntpd is not currently built with support for drivers 8 or 44, but it does have support for drivers 38 and 39. To determine for yourself is not trivial but can be done following the trail of crumbs in the source code. First look at refclock_conf.c to map the driver number to

Re: [ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no

2011-01-17 Thread David J Taylor
Even when completely idle, ntpd wakes up every second and does quite a lot (updating timers, scanning the peer hash table, etc). I'd say that starting ntpd two times per day will take much less resources than running it continuosly. -- Miroslav Lichvar Have you ever measured the resources used

Re: [ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no

2011-01-17 Thread David J Taylor
For notebook users running ntpd only as an NTP client the extra wakeup per second may make a measurable difference in battery life. I was just pointing out it will take more resources than ntpd -q run twice a day. Of course, the accuracy will be orders of magnitude worse than continuosly running

Re: [ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no

2011-01-17 Thread David J Taylor
How much CPU it has used right after start? Is it more than fifth of the 0.484 (which would be spent in 0.5 days)? I don't know. On another, less powerful, single-core PC, it's used 3.5s total CPU since December 24. Here, ntpd -q takes 14 milliseconds of CPU, including system time. Note

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-15 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij2ign.o9d.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] Is the start of the nmea sentect coming more than one second after the PPS signal? Or is it just ending at the one second mark? The start of the NMEA sentence can be /after/ the

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-15 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij3r1n.a4g.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] Your referent is somewhat unclear. If you are saying that your unit is out of spec, then return it. When operated with earlier firmware, the unit is in spec, but may be out of spec

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-15 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij3r8s.a4g.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] So you are separating the PPS from the nmea, and wondering how to get them together again? The best way is for the same program to look at the PPS and the nmea so it can associate them.

[ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-14 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, You may recall that I had a problem with a Garmin GPS18x LVC after firmware upgrades, where the offset between the leading edge of the PPS signal and the end of the NMEA serial data exceeded one second. With some help from Hal Murray who knows more of NTP than I do, we have worked

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-14 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij14l6.qns.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] Well 17ms would get you under the 1.0 sec cutoff. It seems that with ntpd there is no 1.0 sec cut-off - fortunately. Cheers, David ___

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-14 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij219b.cr7.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] The shmslp driver does something similar. It uses some other source to get the seconds right and then hands over to the PPS to get the nanoseconds right. But it uses only the PPS pulse,

Re: [ntp:questions] GPX18x LVC 3.50 firmware - high serial delay problem workround

2011-01-14 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnij1g6n.mnc.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] ??? There is a program which takes the PPS signal and takes the nmea sentence and tells ntpd how much out the computer clock is from the true time. If you are not using gpsd, you are

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP client with ability to write Windows NT system time to hardware clock?

2011-01-04 Thread David J Taylor
In fact I've heard of *nobody* except you, me, Danny, and Terje building ntpd on Windows ;-) [] Regards, Martin Martin, I did attempt to do this with considerable help from the folk here, and I think I even got as far as set of executables once, but as I'm not a C/C++ person, the effort

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP client with ability to write Windows NT system time to hardware clock?

2011-01-04 Thread David J Taylor
Hm, I recently found that at least under Windows Server 2008 x64 the QueryPerformanceCounter (QPC) call is obviously emulated when running 32 bit applications on this 64 bit system. My wclkres program (32 bit binary) http://www.meinberg.de.www/download/utils/windows/wclkres-1.4.zip reports a QPC

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP client with ability to write Windows NT system time to hardware clock?

2011-01-03 Thread David J Taylor
[] I believe so, to the extent you can load the driver at all: Most new Windows installations are x64, and Microsoft makes it enough of a pain to use unsigned drivers on 64-bit versions of Windows that I suspect it's impractical for unattended use. I believe unsigned drivers are still allowed

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-29 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message news:slrnihlurn.9vm.nom...@xs8.xs4all.nl... [] Technically, the timestamps in the NMEA messages are the time of fix, not the current time. So a receiver can rightfully keep a calculated fix in memory and send it at some later time, with the timestamp of

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC 5m - Centos 5.5 - Kernel 2.6.18 - gpsd

2010-12-28 Thread David J Taylor
Q @.. wrote in message news:4d18cb5a$0$12172$fa0fc...@news.zen.co.uk... I wonder if someone would be kind enough to help me out a little here. I have done lots of googleing and found nothing that helps me out with the issues I'm seeing. I am trying to reduce the PPS offset delay (Which

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC 5m - Centos 5.5 - Kernel 2.6.18 - gpsd

2010-12-28 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote in message news:6utou7-ut8@p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org... [] I think it's dependent on the ntpd version as to best settings. I was using fudge 127.127.20.0 time1 0.650 and checking stats to make sure NMEA offset remained low. That was with ntpd 4.2.4p6-o.

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC 5m - Centos 5.5 - Kernel 2.6.18 - gpsd

2010-12-28 Thread David J Taylor
ntpd timestamps the CR/LF at the end of each NMEA sentence. According to this thread: http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2010-December/052859.html the latest (3.50) firmware for the Garmin GPS 18x LVC shifts the NMEA generation even later in the second. You might want to try reverting to

[ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-28 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, Following my previous message, I can confirm that the NMEA output from the GPS18x LVC with the firmware 3.50 upgrade is coming out something like a second after the PPS signal, and worse, it's very variable so sometimes just before the PPS leading edge, and sometimes after. No wonder

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP client with ability to write Windows NT system time to hardware clock?

2010-12-11 Thread David J Taylor
Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be wrote in message news:nssmo.1329$317.1...@newsfe20.iad... [] My RTC already runs in UTC, but my RTC is approximately 2 minutes behind because I have no way of writing the Windows NT system time to the hardware clock (RTC) after using an NTP client to synchronise

Re: [ntp:questions] synchronization distance

2010-12-05 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message [] Why would you want to use a NTPv4 reference implementation on a Microsoft system? 1 - so that all systems interwork correctly with other servers and networking kit. 2 - so that your management tools are consistent throughout the organisation,

Re: [ntp:questions] synchronization distance

2010-12-04 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:ide3nn$6j...@news.eternal-september.org... [] To a large extent I would agree with you, but the net effect of this is to say if you work for a marketing led company (probably true of most of the Fortune 500), do not use NTP as

Re: [ntp:questions] synchronization distance

2010-12-04 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:idefp2$se...@news.eternal-september.org... David J Taylor wrote: of the application. Many of the electronics designers used UNIX systems That makes you unusual for a modern Western company. Most are in financial services

[ntp:questions] ANN: UK - Interruption to MSF 60 kHz Time Frequency Signal - 9 December 2010

2010-11-18 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have received this notification: Notice of Interruption to MSF 60 kHz Time and Frequency Signal The MSF 60 kHz time and frequency signal broadcast from Anthorn Radio Station will be shut down over the period: 9 December 2010: from

Re: [ntp:questions] Local clock - sync issue

2010-11-10 Thread David J Taylor
Okay, but surely the version isn't causing this problem? Cheers, Stephen I don't know, Stephen, but a lot has been fixed in over four years of development. (Thanks for the pointers to the version dates.) Cheers, David ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] Local clock - sync issue

2010-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
Connectivity is fine to the ntp servers, if I restart ntpd it starts syncing with an external clock immediately. This article could be the fix: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15345.html Cheers, Stephen Thanks, Stephen. I don't like that solution, as it imposes more load than

Re: [ntp:questions] OS users

2010-11-05 Thread David J Taylor
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists n...@blacklist.anitech-systems.invalid wrote in message news:iav1nt$re...@news.eternal-september.org... David J Taylor wrote: David Woolley wrote: As to Linux, I would guess most users of ntpd are using Linux. Any figures to back

[ntp:questions] OS users (was: Re: What level of timesynch error is typical onWinXP?)

2010-11-04 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:iasmhg$52...@news.eternal-september.org... [] As to Linux, I would guess most users of ntpd are using Linux. Any figures to back that up? Within my community of several hundred users, almost all are Windows, but behind

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-31 Thread David J Taylor
Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote in message news:20101030210512.4c7bd1c...@ptavv.es.net... [] - no drift file appears to be specified (although it is mentioned) - I had: driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift That is because FreeBSD does this in the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file (with the ability to

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-30 Thread David J Taylor
This is a FreeBSD documentation and FreeBSD comes with a pretty good default ntp.conf, much like several of you have suggested. You can find it at:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/ntp.conf?rev=1.2.2.1.4.1;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup It has mostly comments with just a set of

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-30 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote in message news:t06tp7-n0b@p4x2400c.home.lordynet.org... [] You've hit on why it's difficult to have a generic ntp.conf. It's not just ntpd version specific but operating system version specific. I swapped my NetBSD systems to FreeBSD after NetBSD-1.6x

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-30 Thread David J Taylor
Because it's not a bug. There are different ways of controlling clock adjustments (Phase Locked Loop vs Frequency Locked Loop), and the FreeBSD kernel will switch between them depending on how often adjtime() is being invoked. The only real issue is that logging about it can be annoying, but

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-29 Thread David J Taylor
I had much better luck with the ntp documentation that comes with FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntp.confsektion=5 [] -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ Thanks for the pointer, Florin. I'll bookmark that! It looks very comprehensive, and yet not a single example

Re: [ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

2010-10-29 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:odwdnzry_vhmblfrnz2dnuvz_h-dn...@giganews.com... [] The trouble with a working example file is that too many people will simply copy it. The likely result would be to overload every server named in the example file. Also, the

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typicalonWinXP?

2010-10-26 Thread David J Taylor
Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote in message news:20101025164632.ga1...@localhost... On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:39:47AM +0100, David J Taylor wrote: Thanks, Dave. I may be missing something here, but it seems to me that 4.2.7p58 still takes a number of hours to reach the accuracy

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical onWinXP?

2010-10-22 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktik1pda81pqmx2jntgv9ays6h7haht3+zelf+...@mail.gmail.com... [] No new settings required. You might have a hard time picking out the difference using 5-minute samples of mrtg and the hardcoded Y axis. Looking at loopstats graphs, I would

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-22 Thread David J Taylor
Evandro Menezes evan...@mailinator.com wrote in message news:f13f950a-3168-4a11-ba09-f4d225e7b...@t13g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... On Oct 22, 10:23 am, David J Taylor david- tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: That could explain why I see higher NTP jitter on a Windows system running a USB

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on WinXP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote in message news:aanlktim62cnx2at=n9s8fqjqe0+-qahsr00hamxnp...@mail.gmail.com... [] It may be the (64 bit) qualifier is key. I know 32-bit ntpd runs on x64 Windows, but I have no experience to know how it compares to running on 32-bit Windows. I wouldn't expect

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:i9omts$7s...@news.eternal-september.org... Richard B. Gilbert wrote: Also note that Windows' clock ticks every 17 milliseconds. Only when not running ntpd. ntpd forces the use of multimedia timers. .. and not when running

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
Joseph Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote in message news:joegwinn-da4b7b.23340420102...@news.giganews.com... In article i9mqek$tr...@news.eternal-september.org, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: I have a small network of Windows XP (64 bit) running simulations

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists n...@blacklist.anitech-systems.invalid wrote in message news:i9nkk1$oe...@news.eternal-september.org... By default, the timer resolution 15.625 ms (1/64 second), ... increase the timer resolution. Current PCs' HPET timer is in the

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on WinXP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
4.2.7p52, p53, and p54 each had initial convergence improvements from Dr. Mills. I encourage you to play with 4.2.7p54 or later and see for yourself. ntpd now eliminates the majority of the startup offset in 5 minutes (with a drift file) or 10 minutes (without). During the startup period, the

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
The platforms in question are running Windows XP, not Vista or Windows 7. How does this change the answer? NTP will switch on the multi-media timers in Windows XP and achieve the best performance I have seen on Windows systems. Temperature (or perhaps CPU load causing temperature change in

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on WinXP?

2010-10-21 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote in message news:aanlktik573dg1o5+rqzgyyxi3-9kjnautawgcolfq...@mail.gmail.com... [] 4.2.7p52, p53, and p54 each had initial convergence improvements from Dr. Mills. I encourage you to play with 4.2.7p54 or later and see for yourself. ntpd now eliminates the

Re: [ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical on Win XP?

2010-10-20 Thread David J Taylor
I have a small network of Windows XP (64 bit) running simulations, with NTPv4 running on all the boxes and using a GPS-based timeserver on the company network. The ping time to the server is 2 milliseconds from my desk, but I'm seeing random time errors of order plus/minus 5 to 10 milliseconds,

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x - Jitter and adev lab measurements

2010-09-29 Thread David J Taylor
Kasper Pedersen n...@taur.dk wrote in message news:4c9a2c12.5010...@taur.dk... (Initially posted to LinuxPPS. Dave Hart suggested some denizens of questions@ may be interested too.) [] /Kasper Pedersen Yes, thanks for posting. For a device specified as one microsecond (IIRC) it does well.

Re: [ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?

2010-09-18 Thread David J Taylor
Daniel Havey dha...@yahoo.com wrote in message [] So, you think that a PC clock will drift 20-50ms in 5 seconds? Seems like a lot, but whatever. Let me see if I've got this right, you tell me I might get say synchronization of ~10ms with ntpd running on a lan with everybody on the same

Re: [ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?

2010-09-18 Thread David J Taylor
The offsets on that graph are the sorts of value you would get using ntpdate, although ntpdate will be worse, as its pre-filter is done over a very short time, so will be more likely to be sensitive to time corellated errors. The actual time for ntpd should be considerably more accurate. The

Re: [ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?

2010-09-18 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:i72065$4a...@news.eternal-september.org... David J Taylor wrote: Please check the scales. I very much doubt that ntpdate would achieve the 5-10 microsecond accuracy shown by PC Pixie: http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg

Re: [ntp:questions] Why does ntp keep changing my conf file?

2010-09-18 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:i72tr6$4s...@news.eternal-september.org... [] I think you miss the point. Quite possibly, it des get a bit esoteric at times! ntpd does better because the disciplined clock time is about an order of magnitude more accurate

Re: [ntp:questions] Issues with Linux 2.6.x and LinuxPPS

2010-08-31 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrni7o9im.7k3.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] Yes, in the case of chrony, much better all around. (speed, accuracy,stability) Does chrony work on Windows? ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] Decommission NTP server

2010-08-25 Thread David J Taylor
'ntpdc -c monlist' is your friend, it will list the last 600-700 clients. If you have a lot more clients than this, then you'll have to either install a new/dev ntpd version or insert WireShark or a similar sniffer on a mirror of the server switch port. Terje Terje, I just tried this on

Re: [ntp:questions] Decommission NTP server

2010-08-25 Thread David J Taylor
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: 'ntpdc -c monlist' is your friend, it will list the last 600-700 clients. If you have a lot more clients than this, then you'll have to either install a new/dev ntpd version or insert WireShark

[ntp:questions] UK- Notice of Interruption to MSF 60 kHz Time and Frequency Signal

2010-08-17 Thread David J Taylor
I have received the following: __ Notice of Interruption to MSF 60 kHz Time and Frequency Signal The MSF 60 kHz time and frequency signal broadcast from Anthorn Radio Station will be shut down over the period: 9 September 2010 from 10:00 BST

Re: [ntp:questions] DATUM TymServe 2000 Op/Sv Manual request

2010-08-10 Thread David J Taylor
No, this was the replacement to the TS2000. Completely different cpu/os/codebase. And it came out in 1996 which just goes to show how old that TS2000 is. Sorry I couldn't help. Cheers, David ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Trouble with XP IPv6 ntp client (still unable to connect to link local ntp server)

2010-08-08 Thread David J Taylor
Danny Mayer ma...@ntp.org wrote in message news:4c5e353f.5000...@ntp.org... [] Which Dave Hart and I have. We did most of the work here but I seem to remember someone else did some too and it may not have been tested properly at least on Windows. [] Danny I've worked with Dave Hart on quite

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on small 100% Linux LAN : reasonable access control policy ?

2010-08-02 Thread David J Taylor
Niki Kovacs mic...@mouse.com wrote in message news:4c567a3d$0$24091$426a7...@news.free.fr... [] 1) I'm trying to impress my girlfriend by typing loads of unnecessary restrict statements in my ntp.conf. 2) I'm desperately trying to get rid of a compulsive obsessional disorder, and I thought

Re: [ntp:questions] General ntp architecture question

2010-08-02 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message news:slrni5d1ia.d49.nom...@xs8.xs4all.nl... [] I would not recommend to use the pool, but either try to find the money required for a local clock receiver (which I can understand could be very difficult in a bank), or else configure a couple of fixed

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on small 100% Linux LAN : reasonable accesscontrol policy ?

2010-08-02 Thread David J Taylor
Ryan Malayter malay...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktinst0mnpjepsnfj+e_zd4qpy7yane91tjt5u...@mail.gmail.com... On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:18 AM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: On the other hand, I don't have any untrustworthy users on that LAN either. Oh

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on small 100% Linux LAN : reasonable access control policy ?

2010-08-01 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:ioednxh_-zfymsjrnz2dnuvz_hsdn...@giganews.com... [] Be prepared to wait as long as ten or twelve hours to get really close synchronization. NTP was never intended for systems running only eight hours a day. You can be close in

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on small 100% Linux LAN : reasonable access control policy ?

2010-08-01 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:opidnyn0gy9xksjrnz2dnuvz_usdn...@giganews.com... [] If your definition of close is used, you hardly need NTP. My PC running Windows/XP SP3 is within a few milliseconds running nothing more than W32TIME. What accuracy is

Re: [ntp:questions] API for step time server notification

2010-07-27 Thread David J Taylor
Rob Neal hun...@comcast.net wrote in message news:20100726231053.ga78...@coyote.localhost.org... [] The 'trap' configuration file command may provide something useful. It's not an API, but it notifies a listener of various ntpd events. Sounds like one for SNMP . David

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-26 Thread David J Taylor
Terje Mathisen terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote in message news:kmluh7-5ea@ntp.tmsw.no... David J Taylor wrote: [] Interestingly, on my own FreeBSD system I have no time offset fudge: server 127.127.20.1 mode 0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 prefer fudge 127.127.20.1 flag1 1 flag3 1 refid PPS My

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-25 Thread David J Taylor
Terje Mathisen terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote in message news:5dbth7-6k8@ntp.tmsw.no... [] 55401 183.702 127.127.20.0 $GPGGA,000303,5955.1025,N,01038.4599,E,2,06,2.0,33.1,M,39.8,M,,*77 Yes, that is the location of the metal bracket on the east end of my roof. :-) Terje 59.918375N

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPGraffe V1 (FR !)

2010-07-22 Thread David J Taylor
Laurent Archambault archi.laur...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktimrncond6x5r1_ikz7w4mz7-ezdu52kb51kc...@mail.gmail.com... Thanks a lot, I known your workaround for NTP, and same in the mailing list NTP, and your are in my documentation too. Utils links : -- Divers programmes de «

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-22 Thread David J Taylor
Rhys u...@mailinator.org wrote in message news:mpg.26b2ab4834c891f2989...@news.optusnet.com.au... [] Just noticed sync_uhf_radio as well, no radio service here in Aus :) What frequency band do you imagine GPS works in? Why, the UHF band (300MHz-3GHz) of course! David

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPGraffe V1 (FR !)

2010-07-21 Thread David J Taylor
ARCHI archi.laur...@gmail.com wrote in message news:0e10346c-cc33-4a10-8f36-8c88403dd...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... Sorry all in French language...sorry NTPGraffe rassemble 3 scripts en Perl, et une interface WEB pour visualiser différents graphiques (RRDTool) liées à des serveurs NTP,

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
Rhys u...@mailinator.org wrote in message news:mpg.26b01082c6206af6989...@news.optusnet.com.au... [] I'm amazed it quickly converges, using separate NMEA and PPS on mine, with the correct offset, and correct drift file, its an hour or 2 before it finishes going 500ppm/step/500ppm/step. With a

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote in message news:i23pmn$d3...@news.eternal-september.org... Rhys u...@mailinator.org wrote in message news:mpg.26b01082c6206af6989...@news.optusnet.com.au... [] I'm amazed it quickly converges, using separate NMEA and PPS on mine

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
Rhys u...@mailinator.org wrote in message news:mpg.26b018b8126a17a1989...@news.optusnet.com.au... [] Sorry I should have said, GPS18x. Now that its stabilised its still 20- 80ms positive out in ntpq, so either my offset didn't actually change, or in the wrong direction. For NMEA alone, no

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
Rhys u...@mailinator.org wrote in message news:mpg.26b04c33cb5a4ecb989...@news.optusnet.com.au... [] Using both 20 MMEA and 22 PPS references. PPS turned off on the NMEA, Kernel mode on the PPS. They seem to operate almost independantly. PPS has zero reach, with no 'when' time, for about 1/2

[ntp:questions] OT: Challenging Einstein on the ISS: ACES takes a step ahead

2010-07-20 Thread David J Taylor
ESA announcement: _ A fascinating new experiment that will expand the range of research on the International Space Station was given the green light last Friday with the signature of the ACES atomic clock contract. Read more and watch a video:

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-19 Thread David J Taylor
jimmyterrence jimmyterre...@gmail.com wrote in message news:a8402956-55da-4990-bf95-42a7a2641...@c10g2000yqi.googlegroups.com... [] I'm in the process of compiling 2.6.34.1 on a Debian Lenny system that I had as a spare. I want to see if my problems carry over to a different machine. If it

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-16 Thread David J Taylor
Is there a maximum fudge value above which the NMEA refclock throws away input? Both my 18xLVC GPS receivers output serial data about 550 ms after the PPS signal. That works fine with gpsd, but I've been trying to set up the NMEA driver with pps compiled in the 2.6.34 kernel and it doesn't seem

Re: [ntp:questions] Maximum time2 fudge value for NMEA refclock?

2010-07-16 Thread David J Taylor
jimmyterrence jimmyterre...@gmail.com wrote in message news:1c01938f-d43e-4dea-a143-45e096d31...@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... [] If it was triggering on the wrong edge of the pps signal, wouldn't it be off of the rest of the servers by the length of the pulse? I think that it's triggering

[ntp:questions] UK - MSF off-air in July

2010-07-15 Thread David J Taylor
This time from a paper notification from the NPL, not an e-mail MSF Anthorn will be off the air: Monday July 26 - 08:00 BST to 20:00 BST Tuesday July 27 - 08:00 BST to 20:00 BST to allow maintenance work to be carried out in safety. Cheers, David

Re: [ntp:questions] Clock and Network Simulator

2010-06-29 Thread David J Taylor
No, currently it's Linux only. Someone would have to add Windows versions of all required system calls. Also, ntpd might need some patching if the Windows version uses tricks like getting time with the rdtsc instruction instead of making a system call. -- Miroslav Lichvar Thanks, Miroslav.

Re: [ntp:questions] Clock and Network Simulator

2010-06-28 Thread David J Taylor
Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote in message news:20100628083857.gc21...@localhost... I've been working on a simulator that I think might be useful for NTP developers and advanced users looking for optimal configurations. http://fedorapeople.org/~mlichvar/clknetsim/ clknetsim is a

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-21 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote in message news:slrni1tbbt.fk7.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net... On 2010-06-18, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I would welcome SNMP in NTP and have said so on a number of occasions. There is an ./ntpsnmpd directory in ntp-dev and ntp

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-21 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote in message news:slrni1ukvt.vh7.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net... [] You could file an enhancement request in our BTS (at http://bugs.ntp.org) to let our developers know that you'd like to have this feature added. But, unless people step up to the plate and

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-19 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:hvgor5$8h...@news.eternal-september.org... [] The reference version was available for the Windows NT family long before W32Time. It was available for versions of NT that never had W32Time. Interesting, David. The earliest

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-19 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message news:slrni1p277.kei.nom...@xs8.xs4all.nl... [] Windows NT had a time service, but at that time it was still called TIMESERV. It had its config in TIMESERV.INI instead of in the registry. I guess it was a left-over from the times before the registry.

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-19 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:hvi540$s8...@news.eternal-september.org... Rob wrote: Windows NT had a time service, but at that time it was still called TIMESERV. It had its config in TIMESERV.INI instead of in the registry. It also wasn't based on NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] w32time

2010-06-19 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message news:slrni1p6rl.m7v.nom...@xs8.xs4all.nl... David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote in message news:hvi540$s8...@news.eternal-september.org... Rob wrote: Windows NT had a time

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilffevh94cief43-ewqbc2dtqev4dbbpfs1d...@mail.gmail.com... [] Yes, I agree. But we were talking about NTP using Ethernet, so... that's impossible Even with Ethernet, temperature variations at the client will have a

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:fcgdnxzbxfvy7ifrnz2dnuvz_sadn...@giganews.com... [] If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation receiver), with a PPS output, one edge of that pulse should be accurate to within 50 nanoseconds. A serial output

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
NTP can deliver a time accuracy of 1nsec?? I my point of view, NTP includes methods to estimate the round-trip path delay between the server and client but the performance is limited by SO stack latency, it is an Application Layer protocol. Marcelo, here's what /my/ NTP achieves:

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
David, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very good tests and presentations!! Very very good!!! You gave me real results and all your reports are consistent and show that it's impossible to have usec and nsec precision using NTP though Ethernet. You have SO stack latency and it's a Layer 7 protocol!!! One

Re: [ntp:questions] Hackers list?

2010-06-04 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote in message news:slrni0fhv7.86k.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net... [] You wouldn't have seen the announcements if the list submission address was not working. Tried twice. And both messages are in the hack...@lists.ntp.org archives:

Re: [ntp:questions] local vs Windows Server 2003

2010-05-13 Thread David J Taylor
David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote in message news:852fvpf4p...@mid.individual.net... [] Alas bear.zoo.bt.co.uk is no longer available and BT corporate seem to be getting time from my servers :-) David I hope you can charge them for the privilege! Could buy a few GPS pucks or radio clocks

Re: [ntp:questions] XFAC (?)

2010-05-12 Thread David J Taylor
Laurent Archambault archi.laur...@gmail.com wrote in message news:x2w692f4d2f1005112120nb08f2f41m93b97084bdf25...@mail.gmail.com... Hello all, After many search, i has not find my answer, whay do it mean the status XFAC (?). I has find this Extra Fast Attack Crafts, and i am very happy for

Re: [ntp:questions] Local time sources

2010-05-11 Thread David J Taylor
Jaap Winius wrote in message news:4be85b0e$0$6761$e4fe5...@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl... [] Okay, I think this answers my question. I've been running a Garmin GPS 18 LVC for a few years now... http://www.rjsystems.nl/en/2100-ntpd-garmin-gps-18-lvc-gpsd.php What this page does not say is

Re: [ntp:questions] nmea and initial large offset

2010-05-10 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnhuf5b9.168.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] You can actually use a modified ntpd to feed any of the ntpd reference sources to chrony. If there were a suitably modified NTP available, you wouldn't need chrony in the first place!

Re: [ntp:questions] Local time sources

2010-05-10 Thread David J Taylor
[] However, what is the recommended minimum number for systems that only work with local time sources, such as GPS devices and time signal radio receivers, that each supply their own timing information as well? Is one always enough, or are there still advantages other than redundancy in having

Re: [ntp:questions] nmea and initial large offset

2010-05-09 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:nzsdnw01doawx3jwnz2dnuvz_tqdn...@giganews.com... [] Of course they will not go into the distribution version. At least it won't go into Dave Mills' distribution. IF you can make it work across the full spectrum of NTPD usage it

Re: [ntp:questions] How to debug PPS?

2010-05-05 Thread David J Taylor
Mr Dave Baxter g8...@uko2.co.uk wrote in message [] Indeed, but is GPGGA the correct sentence for NTPD to use? Mine is set for GPRMC works just fine. pip pip Dave B. It depends on the NTP version, Dave. I believe that newer versions allow more sentences. Like you, I've used the

Re: [ntp:questions] Cheap ($29.90) GPS receiver

2010-04-21 Thread David J Taylor
Try it! Previous experience with serial streams has been that it is very hard to time them much more precisely than the time of a single char, but if your hardware/firmware/os does support this, then go for it! Terje .. and one character is less than 20 microseconds at the advertised 57600

Re: [ntp:questions] Cheap ($29.90) GPS receiver

2010-04-20 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote in message news:hql5kh$2m...@news.eternal-september.org... [] The FIFO can be turned off (is off by default) on 16550s. The basic UART algorithm is: Sample at 16 times baud rate. On detecting a space, resample in 8 (maybe 7) clocks. If still space, start assembling

Re: [ntp:questions] Cheap ($29.90) GPS receiver

2010-04-19 Thread David J Taylor
John Hasler wrote in message news:87zl10gw35.fsf...@thumper.dhh.gt.org... This might be of some interest to some here: http://www.cutedigi.com/product_info.php?products_id=4289osCsid=9ae21b081e2ab66b39df0a026ff471a8 I don't know anything about it other than what I have read on the site.

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