WARNING: obsessive high precision maniacs, please don't read :-) The precision desired here is one of human scale, not milliseconds (or worse).
Imagine a little network, with only a few machines. This LAN is never connected to the Net. Imagine a laptop, connected to the net only once every few (2-3) weeks. The connection lasts a few hours, maybe less. It gets it's time updated from the NTP server from the ISP. This laptop is 'brought back' to that isolated LAN, and subsequently used as NTP reference to synchronise and update the time of the other machines. Obviously, the time of that laptop will have shifted in between connections to the Net. What can be done to get it's time sync'ed as fast as possible, and then become stable as quickly as possible? Right now it seems the sparse updates tend to give a lot of work to the NTP client... :-) -- There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
