On 20:02:17 Nov 17, Henning Brauer wrote: > > bad idea. loses all state. > just give it a little slack, it copes. >
Probably what he means is that if you restart ntpd with ifstated and interfere with its normal operation the clock filtering and correction algorithms will go for a toss. Time correction on a machine where thousands of processes depend on clockticks is a difficult science. Time can never go back and even advancement has to be done slowly. It is great that Henning implemented OpenNTPD since the RFC and code by Dave Mills is so overly complex you start wondering why so much trouble to do something that is done by a quartz watch worth 5 $ ? :) And the most important point being do we really need nanosecond level accuracy? Most of us don't. Keep things simple and no useless buttons. Way to go OpenBSD. regards, Girish
