Re: [ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:19, Dave Hart wrote: > ntpdc uses binary structures on the wire, and assumes implicitly all > systems have identical binary representations.  That works fine for > integers, apparently not so well for floating-point. This is mistaken on my part -- all the data involved i

Re: [ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 19:59, David J Taylor wrote: > Running on my Windows PC (ntpd 4.2.7p241) I get: > > C:\>ntpdc -c kerninfo pixie > pll offset:           0.001216 s > pll frequency:        27.793 ppm > maximum error:        0.005504 s > estimated error:      2e-006 s > status:               2

Re: [ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 06:03, David J Taylor wrote: > This is the result > > C:\>ntpq -c kerninfo pixie > ***A request variable unknown to the server Right, this is expected. Newer ntpq commands added to replace ntpdc equivalents usually rely on newly-introduced system variables in ntpd, so

Re: [ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-08 Thread David J Taylor
On 2012-02-08T19:59:49-, David J Taylor wrote: Running on my Windows PC (ntpd 4.2.7p241) I get: C:\>ntpdc -c kerninfo pixie [...] Whereas logged into the FreeBSD 8.0 system (ntpd 4.2.4p5) I see: pixie-ii# ntpdc -c kerninfo Not only do the numbers look different, but the 2107 status isn'

Re: [ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-08 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2012-02-08T19:59:49-, David J Taylor wrote: > Running on my Windows PC (ntpd 4.2.7p241) I get: > > C:\>ntpdc -c kerninfo pixie [...] > Whereas logged into the FreeBSD 8.0 system (ntpd 4.2.4p5) I see: > > pixie-ii# ntpdc -c kerninfo > > Not only do the numbers look different, but the 210

[ntp:questions] Is this a bug? Different outputs from ntpdc -c kerninfo

2012-02-08 Thread David J Taylor
Running on my Windows PC (ntpd 4.2.7p241) I get: C:\>ntpdc -c kerninfo pixie pll offset: 0.001216 s pll frequency:27.793 ppm maximum error:0.005504 s estimated error: 2e-006 s status: 2107 pll time constant:4 precision:1e-006 s frequenc