[ntp:questions] NTP slow to start correction after a drift

2008-05-09 Thread Mike K Smith
Apologies for a long post, but I was unable to make it shorter. I have been monitoring timekeeping performance on an environment which contains 3 stratum 1 clocks and 4 Cisco routers running as stratum 2. The stratum 1s use time which is derived originally from GPS, but fed to the stratum 1 clocks

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP slow to start correction after a drift

2008-05-12 Thread Mike K Smith
Hi Brian, On 9 May, 19:06, Brian Utterback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the frequency data from the same period as the graph? What > happened to cause the frequency to be off all of a sudden? Loopstats weren't enabled so I don't have the frequency data. I'm out of the office today but

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP slow to start correction after a drift

2008-05-12 Thread Mike K Smith
On 9 May, 16:46, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why would you use a solaris system? AFAIK its kernel timeing routines are > primative. Use a Linux/BSD system. This is an existing system which I don't have the means to change even if I felt that Solaris were somehow intrinsically inferior to Li

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP slow to start correction after a drift

2008-05-13 Thread Mike K Smith
On 12 May, 15:16, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike K Smith wrote: > > Looks like I should be reducing maxpoll. I guess the design of NTP is > > optimised for clocks with predictable drift rates, and a sudden > > variation in drift rat

Re: [ntp:questions] Server offset included in served time?

2008-09-15 Thread Mike K Smith
On 12 Sep, 22:14, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard Barina wrote: > > > Does an NTP servers take into account it's estimated offset in serving time > > There seem to have been a lot of questions asked in the last month that > are based on the false assumption that "offset" measures

Re: [ntp:questions] reading loopstats file, converting day and time

2009-01-23 Thread Mike K Smith
On 23 Jan, 03:18, anna_chen...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, I need some help in interpreting the loopstats file, hope someone > can help > I have ntp configured so that it is generating the loopstats file, the > file format is the following > > 54854 852.338 0.000779917 -85.871689 0.001363577 15.650605 1

[ntp:questions] Making a clock tell the wrong time?

2009-03-09 Thread Mike K Smith
Hi, For testing purposes I want to configure an NTP server to run with a small but known offset. I would like to test at the following offset values 25, 90, 180, 350 and 2500ms. I tried the naive approach first - I synced a Linux PC to a stratum 1 server and once it was stable I reconfigured NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] Making a clock tell the wrong time?

2009-03-10 Thread Mike K Smith
> > For testing purposes I want to configure an NTP server to run with a > > small but known offset. I would like to test at the following offset > > values 25, 90, 180, 350 and 2500ms. > > What is this test intended to prove? I want to understand how long it takes in practice for an offset to be p

Re: [ntp:questions] Making a clock tell the wrong time?

2009-03-10 Thread Mike K Smith
On 10 Mar, 14:29, Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-03-10, Mike K Smith wrote: > > >Steve Kostecke wrote: > > >>Mike K Smith wrote: > Now that I thing about it, what happened when you applied that offset is > that you "moved" the clock 90ms. > > >

Re: [ntp:questions] What exactly does "Maximum Distance Exceded" mean?

2009-03-13 Thread Mike K Smith
On 13 Mar, 04:31, Joseph Gwinn wrote: > The timeserver can be either a Symmetricom ET6010 GPS receiver feeding > an IRIG-B002 time signal to a Symmetricom TS2100 Network Time Server, or > a Spectracom 9383 NTP timeserver with built-in GPS receiver.  The GPS > receivers are driven from a common ant

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-06-01 Thread Mike K Smith
On 31 May, 22:20, Brian Utterback wrote: > Hal Murray wrote: > > In article <1243711613.525...@news1nwk>, > >  Brian Utterback writes: > >> David Woolley wrote: > > >>> It only requires 2.  The argument about having four initially is about > >>> having a clear majority even after rejecting one. >

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-06-02 Thread Mike K Smith
On 2 June, 14:31, Brian Utterback wrote: > David Woolley wrote: > > smithmi...@googlemail.com wrote: > > >> In the case below, will server 3 be treated as a falseticker because > >> its offset lies outside the dispersion interval of the other two > >> servers even though there is some intersection

Re: [ntp:questions] Large offset and lots of time resets

2011-02-23 Thread Mike K Smith
Maarten Deen wrote: > A while now I'm having some problems with my ntp setup. > > I have simple comfig file: > $ cat /etc/ntp.conf > # /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd; see ntp.conf(5) for help > > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > logfile /var/log/ntp.log > > server 0.nl.pool.ntp.org >