The short answer is loopstats. Peer the two machines, turn on logging, and you'll have an instant, continuous log of time differences beween the servers.
On 1/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:30:59AM -0500, Danny Mayer wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've got two (x86_64 Linux) machines between which I need to > > > determine the relative time difference. The problem is, the > > > machines are not directly connected and only one is connected to > > > the Internet. > > > ... > > > > What do you think that NTP does? and why don't you think that after 20+ > > years of engineering that it doesn't do a much better job? > > I think NTP syncrhonizes one computer's time to another. > > However, the two computers in question don't have a direct > connection. And syncing the one machine to the common server via > NTP through VPN is not what I want to do. > > In our application, we need to know if there's even a few > milliseconds of time difference between the two machines... and I'm > just looking for some feedback on how I can accurately measure that > difference. > > And I'm even curious about what kind of time difference we should > expect when both machines are NTP time sync'ed, albeit to different > NTP servers. > > Thanks, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
