OK, so aside from not worrying about iburst ....  ?

Peter Laws wrote:
Hello, time nerds.  :-)

Here's what I want:  accurate time to at least a few ms of UTC.  Don't
think I have users that need better than that.  I'd like the time to be
continuous and not jump around, of course.


Here's what I have:  3 GPS clocks (two old Datum TymServe 2100s and one
unknown).  Two are fairly close geographically and the third is about 2
miles away.


Currently, I have 4 systems (RHEL 3 on Dell HW) that are peered to each
other and use all three GPS clocks as references.  OK, looks like I have
two others peered as well - similar to the others but RHEL 5.

I also have another group of 4 servers peered together (RHEL 5 on Dell
except one that is running an NPAD server on Knoppix) in a similar setup
with the same three GPS clocks as well as two external Stratum 2 servers.

iburst is on for all (saw that thread and will disable for externals!)

On my own workstation, using 8 of the ten server mentioned above :-) I see
messages like this:


May  5 09:44:05 toto ntpd[5589]: synchronized to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, stratum 2

where my client daemon seems to flip around from one of my servers to the
others.

I have real servers that use the first 4 I described above as their
"server" entries and I see similar "synchronized" messages.


What can or should I do to make this more robust?  Would a "prefer"
statement help?  Should I use more or fewer peers?


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Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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