Uwe Klein wrote: > Terje Mathisen wrote: > >> There is a special option which you can use in your ntp.conf file, >> which specifies this buffer, I'm trying to remember the name...google >> >> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/miscopt.html >> >> What you want is something like 'tinker huffpuff 86400' to make a >> 24-hour buffer in which to look for the minimum round-trip time: All >> packets which are delayed significantly more than this time will be >> checked for consistency (i.e. the resulting time must be within the >> possible interval), but will not directly modify the system clock. > > This comes in usefull for me, sitting on a line that has excursion > in roundtrip delay due to heavy traffic.( dsl/isdn ) > > can i introspect this somehow while it is running?
Possibly, if you have crypto keys configured. In that case many (but not all!) config file parameters might be entered/modified using ntpdc Anyway, with a relatively stable clock and iburst you'll only be offline for a number of seconds if you restart the deamon. Terje -- - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
