Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > wicks wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > We have solris stations with ntp 4.2, act as a server and clients. > > These Solaris clients act as peers when the server is down. We have > > Vxworks machines polling these Solaris clients using VxWorks > > SntpTimeGet command. > > This setup works fine, except vxworks machines do not get ntp synced > > from solaris clients, when the server is down. ( When the solaris > > clients boot up - Ntp server is down). This problem does not happen if > > ntp server goes down once solaris clients get synced initially to the > > ntp server. > > > >>From TCPDUMP, we found that solris clients send stratum 0 to vxworks, > > when they do not get synced to the ntp server( initially), vxworks does > > not accept ntp messages with stratum set to Zero. > > > > Is there a way to set clients statum to non zero value, before clients > > get synced to the ntp server? > > > > Our config file is: > > tinker stepout 20 > > server 10.2.10.70 prefer burst minpoll 4 maxpoll 6 > > server 10.2.10.71 burst minpoll 4 maxpoll 6 > > > > You should probably be using "iburst" instead of "burst". "burst" is a > special purpose hack used, I believe, dialup internet connections. > > "iburst" says to send the first eight queries at two second intervals. > It is used to get enough information to start synchronizing the clock in > about sixteen seconds instead of about 5 and a half minutes. > > You also should probably NOT be specifying minpoll and maxpoll. Ntpd is > designed select an appropriate polling interval from the default range > of 6 to 10; it is rare to encounter a situation where something else > will work better. > > I believe that "stratum 0" means "I am not synchronized" and clients are > quite correct in refusing to accept time from an unsynchronized system. > > You can add lines like: > # > # Declare the local clock to be the clock of last resort. > # It will be used to serve time in the absence of any other. > # > server 127.127.1.0 # Local clock, unit 0 > fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 > > Setting the stratum to 10 when serving the unsynchronized local clock is > conventional and makes it unlikely that ANYONE will use such a server > unless there is nothing else available.
Yes. It did work. Thanks _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.isc.org https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
