On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:47:13PM +0000, Chandra Mallela wrote:
> 1.      Which field in the delay response indicates the value to the slave 
> announed by the master? Is it logMessageInterval?

Yes.

> 2.      DelayReq packet is sent by the slave. Thus, the number of DelayReq 
> packets to be sent is to be controlled by the slave. Am I right? Why should 
> it be an option with master?

Master tells slaves how often they should be polling the master.

> An answer to my own question: It is the master being burdened to respond to 
> possibly many number of slaves. Hence, it controls the number. Is this the 
> rationale for what you have mentioned below?

Yes, I think that's correct. The sync interval is controlled by
master, so the delay interval should be too.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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