Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-20 Thread John Hasler
uwe writes: > Oh, I forgot, you are in the US ;-) The USA has had motorail since 1983. Bill, however, is in Canada. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-20 Thread Uwe Klein
unruh wrote: That is I am afraid a terrible routing model. You will never get good timing from it. GPS or no GPS. "I want to drive from New Yourk to San Francisco as quicly as possible, but my car has one wheel locked by a police boot, and the somebody put water into my gas tank. How can I get fr

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-20 Thread unruh
On 2010-10-19, Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: > Unruh and Terje, thank you for replying. > > What if we complicated networking somewhat, such that at times node50 > acquires GPS capability while node1 may looses it? Actually, to make the > problem general, any one node (possibly only one) may ha

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread David Woolley
Rick Jones wrote: Just what sort of mobile/ad-hoc/point-to-point network where nodes end-up in the GPS shadow of tall buildings might this be? A railway train? In any case, using abstract descriptions of real world problems often produces a sub-optimal solution, so knowing the application

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread David Woolley
Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: The related issue is this: what if node1 lost GPS signal too? (all caravan entered a grotto). Would then ntp.conf line: tos orphan 5 The first question would be do you need to do anything special at all. You only need that sort of solution if you are going to g

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: > What if we complicated networking somewhat, > such that at times node50 acquires GPS capability > while node1 may looses it? Actually, to make the > problem general, any one node (possibly only one) > may have GPS and remain at an extremity of the network, > whe

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Rick Jones
"Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy)" wrote: > Unruh and Terje, thank you for replying. > What if we complicated networking somewhat, such that at times > node50 acquires GPS capability while node1 may looses it? Actually, > to make the problem general, any one node (possibly only one) may > have GPS and rem

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy)
Terje Mathisen Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:15 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: > Unruh and Terje, thank you for replying. > > What if we complicated networking somewhat, suc

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:49:47PM -0500, Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: > I have a question about how to use ntp in a long linear network. Assume there > are 50 nodes with the one most in the West having GPS, and every node running > ntpd: > node1 --- node2 --- node3 --- ... --- node50 > GPS

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Terje Mathisen
Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: Unruh and Terje, thank you for replying. What if we complicated networking somewhat, such that at times node50 acquires GPS capability while node1 may looses it? Actually, to make the problem general, any one node (possibly only one) may have GPS and remain at an ex

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy)
ernik=alcatel-lucent@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+jerzy.miernik=alcatel-lucent@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of unruh Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:37 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata On 2010-10-18, Miernik,

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread unruh
On 2010-10-18, Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: > I have a question about how to use ntp in a long linear network. Assume there > are 50 nodes with the one most in the West having GPS, and every node running > ntpd: > node1 --- node2 --- node3 --- ... --- node50 > GPS What does "long linear ne

Re: [ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-19 Thread Terje Mathisen
Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy) wrote: I have a question about how to use ntp in a long linear network. Assume there are 50 nodes with the one most in the West having GPS, and every node running ntpd: node1 --- node2 --- node3 --- ... --- node50 GPS Which approach to synchronization would be bett

[ntp:questions] long linear network, time accuracy, and ntp strata

2010-10-18 Thread Miernik, Jerzy (Jerzy)
I have a question about how to use ntp in a long linear network. Assume there are 50 nodes with the one most in the West having GPS, and every node running ntpd: node1 --- node2 --- node3 --- ... --- node50 GPS Which approach to synchronization would be better in terms of the time accuracy