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Hello Andrea, |
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Thank you so much for your time. I missed the part about log^2 in the |
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documentation. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Nick. |
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On 5/10/13, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, "Andrea Conti" <alyf@××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> > server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer |
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>> Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual |
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>> value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. |
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>> > disable auth |
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>> > broadcastclient |
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>> > server ntp.server.com prefer |
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>> This looks fine to me; although configuring a broadcast association when |
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>> your clients also have a unicast association to the same server seems a |
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>> bit pointless, this should not cause any harm. |
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>> I think you should first try to fix your server config and see if |
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>> getting a proper sync on the server also solves the problem with the |
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>> clients. |
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>> > As for /etc/conf.d/ntpd, we have set nothing. To be honest I did not |
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>> > even know the file |
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>> > existed till you mentioned it: |
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>> > |
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>> > NTPD_OPTS="-u ntp:ntp" |
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>> That is where you put the commandline options you want ntpd to be |
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>> started with. |
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>> > I would have liked to be better prepared for this but the gentoo wiki |
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>> > page has been down for a few weeks now. We are not looking for |
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>> > microsecond synchronization however, down to the second would be nice! |
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>> I doubt you can consistently achieve microsecond-level synchronization |
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>> with NTP ;) |
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>> The official documentation of the ntp suite [1] is a good source of |
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>> information; the man pages of ntpd and ntp.conf are also quite |
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>> extensive, albeit a bit terse. |
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>> andrea |
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>> [1] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html |
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> Many thanks Andrea! |
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> Although I'm not the original poster, but within the next couple of months, |
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> me & my team will have to implement something similar. Your reply is a good |
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> reference for us! |
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> Again, thank you! |
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> Rgds, |
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