Developers at the University of Melbourne have produced a time-sync client called "TSCclock" which exchanges standard NTP packets with a NTP server. They assert that TSCclock, which runs on FreeBSD and at least two flavors of Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora), provides substantially better synchronization than ntpd both on a LAN and over the Internet.
The following info is some of what is available: 1. The TSCclock page at the University of Melbourne: http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/tscclock/ 2. A paper titled "Ten Microseconds Over LAN, for Free", originally presented at the 2007 International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication. This is available at http://www.cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/~darryl/Publications/ISPCS07_camera.pdf It includes a general description of their approach and results for both ntpd and TSCclock obtained in their testbed. 3. A one-hour Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nXgeh7v_U All of the info on TSCclock that I have run across has originated with the group at the University of Melbourne. Does anyone know of an independent comparison between ntpd and TSCclock? Thanks, Gene _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
