On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:44:35PM +0100, s...@fettabernett.de wrote: > Hello, > > I was installing chrony on a couple of computers on a local network and was > wondering what the peer option actually does. Should I add each of the > computer as a peer to the others? Or if I do, does only one need a real > server entry?
The peer option allows the peers to be synchronized to each other in both directions. This is useful to improve fault tolerance, for example when one peer loses the connection to its servers or the servers go down, it will be synchronized to the peer (unless its servers are down too). If all of your computers share the same link to the internet and each of them is configured to use multiple servers (e.g. from pool.ntp.org), using the peer option between them probably won't make a difference. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email listmas...@chrony.tuxfamily.org.