On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, "Andrea Conti" <[email protected]> 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, --
