On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:44:08 -0500, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote for the entire planet to see:
>I thought that "burst" sent eight packets two seconds apart at each poll >interval. It's not apprropriate for most situations. It was designed >for systems making infrequent dialup connections like twice or three >times daily. My confusion. IBURST for the Initial loading of the buffer. BURST for the very, very infrequent connection to reload the entire buffer each time. But what about the idea that IBURST is nice for fast startup, BURST is helpful if there hasn't been a poll for a very, very long time, and now the new idea for an explorer packet (only one extra) that would be nice to smooth the network path when the polling interval goes over a couple of minutes. It turns each of them into virtually the same case, classified by when the polling interval currently in effect. - Eric _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
