[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ackermann N8UR) wrote:

> Old HP 5061As with the digital clock option; they provide a 1pps output 
> to use with the ATOM driver.

Ta.  I see Symmetricom are selling the 5071 now, I shall have to
investigate their range (for our own purposes, see earlier posts).

> I guess my question may go to the fundamentals of ntp:  can an NTP 
> server ever do better than any of the individual servers it sees?  In 
> other words, does the algorithm blend the offset/jitter/delay 
> information it has to generate a concept of time based on not just one, 
> but the ensemble (or at least the survivors of the sanity checks), of 
> the available servers?  If so, how best to configure that?

Left to itself ntpd is supposed to do that, and there is anti-hopping
code in newer versions -- see clock_select() in ntp_proto.c and the
description of mitigation in

  http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/prefer.html


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                      Ronan Flood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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