Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Utterback
Charles Elliott -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+elliott.ch=verizon@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+elliott.ch=verizon@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of Terje Mathisen Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:21 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone th

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-14 Thread Charles Elliott
ursday, April 10, 2014 10:21 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this? Brian Utterback wrote: > On 4/10/2014 3:22 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote: >> >> The maximum ntpd slew is 500 ppm, which means that the absolute >> maximum possib

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-10 Thread Terje Mathisen
Brian Utterback wrote: On 4/10/2014 3:22 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote: The maximum ntpd slew is � 500 ppm, which means that the absolute maximum possible slew between UTC and the local clock would be 1000 ppm (i.e. the clock is maximally bad, at +500 ppm, and we are currently slewing at -500 ppm),

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Utterback
On 4/10/2014 3:22 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote: The maximum ntpd slew is ± 500 ppm, which means that the absolute maximum possible slew between UTC and the local clock would be 1000 ppm (i.e. the clock is maximally bad, at +500 ppm, and we are currently slewing at -500 ppm), in which case the max

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-10 Thread Terje Mathisen
Dowd, Greg wrote: However, t1 and t4 are not really in seconds if the client clock is slewing. That is, the difference t4 - t1 will be shorter than seconds if the clock is being slowed down and larger if the clock is being sped up. Hence the clock slew may be a source of variation that is not

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-09 Thread Dowd, Greg
4:31 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this? In ntp_proto.c the delay and offset are computed as follows: t34 = t3 - t4; t21 - t2 - t1; p_del = t21 - t34; offset = (t21 - t3)/2.; where t1 = client send time t2 = server receive

[ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-09 Thread Charles Elliott
In ntp_proto.c the delay and offset are computed as follows: t34 = t3 - t4; t21 - t2 - t1; p_del = t21 - t34; offset = (t21 - t3)/2.; where t1 = client send time t2 = server receive time t3 = server send time t4 = client receive time. Howe