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