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 dedicated interconnect. As you might imagine

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 hosts

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 machine.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Rob Neal
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Unruh wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Unruh wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net writes: Unruh wrote: Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de writes: David J Taylor

[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,

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 in every thread. Chrony has an impulse response that is ill

Re: [ntp:questions] Test internal clock

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Neal
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Rob wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net 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

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

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 qo6dnzljdv8z4cdunz2dnuvz_hwwn...@giganews.com, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote: Joseph Gwinn wrote: In article nbwdnvxq_p-y_idunz2dnuvz_thin...@giganews.com, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote: Joseph

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

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 17:49:01.810 filter

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=1215lg=nl ) A wireshark capture shows that it sends a bogu reftime ... Reference Clock Update Time: Jan 5, 2009

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 refuses

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 regular ntp

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

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 that the

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 comments in the conf

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 the

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 exit for