Russell, David wrote: > The PC is running XP and the Greyware Domain Time II NTP client. >
I've never heard of it. I managed to track this down. I can't tell a great deal from what they say since they are short on real technical details. Some of their charts are incorrect since not only does NTP run on Windows servers of all flavors, it runs as a service. Not only that the reference implementation is free and Meinberg has done an excellent job of packaging it. They also provide a free monitoring utility. There are some things that the installer does not do, like install itself on remote systems, though it's possible to script that. It also does not run on win9x machines. It's not worth the effort. > I'll track down the drift file info. Do you think that it should be > possible to maintain the clock accuracy while the PC is unable to > receive any NTP packets? > Don't bother looking for a drift file. I thought you were running the reference implementation of NTP. My guess is that it is using SNTP rather than NTP so it's not really disciplining the clock. The reference implementation of NTP not only ensures that the time is correct but it also disciplines the frequency of the clock ticks so that the clock stays accurate even when the client is not connected to any servers. You are unlikely to have problems with the clock drifting with the reference implementation of NTP. Danny > > David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
