Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-02-01 Thread David L. Mills
Dag-Erling, The monitor and rate semantics are further elaborated in the recent documentation posted to the web page. Dave Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>The rate violation is caught in the MRU list, which can be retrieved >>using ntpdc and the mo

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you set up a test locally, include the > > restrict default limited kod > > line in the configuration file. Yes, that's what I did, and it works beautifully. Thanks! DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The rate violation is caught in the MRU list, which can be retrieved > using ntpdc and the monlist command. When the number of clients is > small, the list can be retrieved over the net. When the number of > clients is larte, like several hundred, ther

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread David L. Mills
Dag-Erling, The rate violation is caught in the MRU list, which can be retrieved using ntpdc and the monlist command. When the number of clients is small, the list can be retrieved over the net. When the number of clients is larte, like several hundred, there are many UDP packets and one or mo

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread David L. Mills
Dag-Erling, Well, there's a reason. In the past serveral days 15 rascals have been punished for rate exceed, one of them continuously at 3 others at 11 and 13 s. The problem is that the rate limit of two KoDs per seconds is itself exceeded and the packet is not sent. The system statistics show

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These configurable features are in the current snapshot, so that can > do the same things. One question, what is the range of the "monitor" value on a "discard" line in ntp.conf? My understanding is that if "monitor" is e.g. 10%, it will only send ou

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These configurable features are in the current snapshot, so that can > > do the same things. > I'll set one up locally (inside the firewall) and see if I have better > luck with it than with rackety.

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. The rackety.udel.edu NTP server has KoD enabled and an average > headway threshold of 16 s. If you send packets at less than 2-s > headway or less tha 16-s average headway, you should get a KoD > RATE. If you are not authenticated, pogo.udel.edu s

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-24 Thread David L. Mills
Dag-Erling, Yes. The rackety.udel.edu NTP server has KoD enabled and an average headway threshold of 16 s. If you send packets at less than 2-s headway or less tha 16-s average headway, you should get a KoD RATE. If you are not authenticated, pogo.udel.edu should spit KoD AUTH at you. But, note

[ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Does anyone know of a server or piece of software I can use to test an SNTP implementation - including its handling of KOD packets? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/