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

2010-07-26 Thread Rob Neal
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:02:16AM -0700, Thierry MARTIN wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any API that can be used in a program to be "notified" if a > "step time server" event occurs? > As far as I could see, it is "only" logged. > > Thanks in advance for your answers. > / Thierry > > _

Re: [ntp:questions] proprietary hardware clock as NTP reference source

2010-06-13 Thread Rob Neal
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:21:58AM +, Rob Neal wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:26:13PM -0700, apobrien wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a set of proprietary hardware timing cards (Symmetricom > > bc635PCIe) which synchronize their clocks using a dedicate

Re: [ntp:questions] proprietary hardware clock as NTP reference source

2010-06-12 Thread Rob Neal
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:26:13PM -0700, apobrien wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a set of proprietary hardware timing cards (Symmetricom > bc635PCIe) which synchronize their clocks using a dedicated > interconnect. As you might imagine the timing card conditioned time > drifts from that of the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP v3 server, v4 client can't synch

2009-09-09 Thread Rob Neal
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, rom...@ntp.org wrote: > Greetings, > > I write with a concern from my day job, working on APM (application > performance monitoring) devices for OPNET Technologies, Inc. I'm > attempting to help a customer who is using an NTP v3 server running > under a VMware virtual machin

Re: [ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?

2009-08-13 Thread Rob Neal
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > >> Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >>> Unruh wrote: > Ulrich Windl writes: > >> "David J Taylor" >> writes: >>> I've recent been suggesting the Windows port of NTP as a program >>>

[ntp:questions] rackety

2009-07-25 Thread Rob Neal
rackety.udel.edu is not synchronized. ntpq -crv rackety.udel.edu: associd=0 status=00f8 leap_none, sync_unspec, 15 events, no_sys_peer, version="ntpd 4.2.5p...@1.1874-o Sun May 24 18:56:51 UTC 2009 (2)", processor="i386", system="FreeBSD/6.1-RELEASE", leap=00, stratum=1, precision=-18, rootdelay=

Re: [ntp:questions] Test internal clock

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Neal
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Unruh wrote: > hun...@comcast.net (Rob Neal) writes: > >>> >>> It almost seems like a religious group. Most people try to convert >>> the world to Mills' NTPD, and then there is the dissident who tries >>> to push Chrony

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Support (Was 'What does "Max Distance Exceeded"...')

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Neal
And I have been remiss in not expressing my thanks to Dr. Mills for his efforts over the last several months. Dr. Mills, you did a *great* job of updating the dev tree. Many improvements, and you knocked one of my (simplistic) attacks on its head. Crypto- nak cleanup and all that. sigh. have to lo

Re: [ntp:questions] Test internal clock

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Neal
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Rob wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> Towli wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I would like to test my internal clock (from my domain pc) against a >>> public ntp server, to see if there is a discrepance (i suspect our >>> domain time is not synchronised properly). >>> Is there a wa

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

2009-03-16 Thread Rob Neal
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Joseph Gwinn wrote: > In article , > "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote: > >> Joseph Gwinn wrote: >>> In article , >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote: >>> Joseph Gwinn wrote: > In article <49bd3907.1080...@ntp.org>, ma...@ntp.org (Danny Mayer) > wrote: > >>> [snip]

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference implementation 4.2.4p6 receive() swapping bytes..?

2009-03-06 Thread Rob Neal
you broke something, review your changes. Or maybe something along the way is dissing you. (stateful fw, packet sniffer, whatever) the reference implementation simply does not behave in the manner you report. On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, regan_russ...@hotmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > In ntp_config.c I

Re: [ntp:questions] noise, frequency, stability, tai, rootdispersion, ...

2009-02-03 Thread Rob Neal
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, alkope...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi > Where can I find a detailed description of all these values provided > by "ntpq -c rv"? > What do you think which values are important for logging and graphical > display to see problems fast? Here is an example > http://www.wraith.sf.ca

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Neal
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > Got one question: > >> reference time:cd0c473b.73087696 Mon, Jan 5 2009 9:45:47.449 >> ( http://nmi.nl/index.php?pageId=1215&lg=nl ) > A wireshark capture shows that it sends a bogu reftime ... > Reference Clock Upda

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Neal
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Folkert van Heusden wrote: transmitted 4, in filter 4 reference time:cd0c473b.73087696 Mon, Jan 5 2009 9:45:47.449 originate timestamp: cd0f5b7d.d6ff250b Wed, Jan 7 2009 17:49:01.839 transmit timestamp: cd0f5b7d.cf7e90ff Wed, Jan 7 2009 17:49:0

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-08 Thread Rob Neal
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Heiko Gerstung wrote: > Folkert van Heusden schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> It seems the Dutch NMi organisation (which is the time reference for the >> Netherlands) has an NTP-service as well. Now I tried retrieving the time >> with ntpdate (just to see if it was reachable) but ntpdate

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-07 Thread Rob Neal
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > It seems the Dutch NMi organisation (which is the time reference for the > Netherlands) has an NTP-service as well. Now I tried retrieving the time > with ntpdate (just to see if it was reachable) but ntpdate refuses it. > Using the regula

Re: [ntp:questions] QoS always the same Freebsd 6.1 ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-10-05 Thread Rob Neal
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Hans J?rgen Jakobsen wrote: I would like NTP traffic to use my providers EF traffic class. One way of doing that would be to send packet with DSCP == 46 (TOS byte == 184). But I have had no luck. I have fetched latest dev version ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) No matter if what i tr

Re: [ntp:questions] Odd (mis)behavior when reference clock fails

2008-09-18 Thread Rob Neal
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: > We have a fairly large "mesh" of NTP servers spread across the > US. Almost all have PPS reference clocks and are quite > accurate. Recently one of the reference clocks located across the county > seems to have failed. Such is life. > > The problem is th

Re: [ntp:questions] symmetricom / BC635 openBSD (or freeBSD) driver

2008-03-10 Thread Rob Neal
The driver was written for FreeBSD, not OpenBSD. It's under a BSD license, feel free to port it. Rob On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Andrew Gallo wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > Symmetricom actually has the freeBSD source code, which I am trying to > compile without success. As far as writing a

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-08 Thread Rob Neal
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andy Helten wrote: > > Richard Gilbert wrote: >> >> >> A comment in ntp.conf and/or the startup file, explaining WHY stepping >> is enabled should go a long way toward solving the "dumbass" problem. >> >> > > Yes, I know, but that requires someone to actually read the comment

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-06 Thread Rob Neal
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Andy Helten wrote: > > I think I have been giving it enough time to stabilize -- any test I > consider legitimate was allowed to run for at least 8 hours. Most tests > ran overnight for 18-24 hours and some tests ran over weekends for > nearly 72 hours. Results were always

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Neal
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Andy Helten wrote: -snippage- > I am having a problem with drift values approaching and, on occasion, > reaching +/-500ppm. > -snippage- > NTP conf file for BC635 IRIG-B PMC > /***/ > > tinker panic 0 # don't let daemon exi