The desktop PCs can each be configured with as many reference clocks as you like. That is independent of how many stratum 1 NTP servers a company needs to operate. Maybe you are running some stratum 2 servers on your routers and using more from the Internet. All these choices are independent of each other.
If you are serving Windows PCs then, I think those are all running SNTP and then use just one NTP server For most companies there really is no need to even have a GPS receiver. Being within 10 milliseconds is just fine so pool servers will do. > I would argue that you need at least three servers (and more like five). When > given only two > servers NTP simply dithers back and forth between them. It does not have > a way to figure out which of two clocks is wrong. It will detect a missing > clock, but > not one that is simply off time by a bit. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.