On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>wrote:
> But as I wrote before if you are on a local network and are willing to > buy special PTP compatible hardware you can use PTP and avoid NTP. > PTP relies on external time stamps put on but the network hardware and > is about one order of magnitude better then NTP if you have the right > network hardware. > I believe this may be conventional wisdom but time-nuts shouldn't believe conventional wisdom they should be measuring. E.g. FSM says their NTP+PTP "servers" perform equally well using either protocol. The trick is to use optimized NTP software and timestamping hardware. > And if you REALLY care about timing you will distribute a PPS or a > 10MHz reference > Or, to rephrase "equally poorly using either protocol". _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
