David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote:
>> >> An SNTP canot be a server if it is not tied to a hardware clock. >s/cannot/should not/ Pre-Windows 2003 versions of w32time are examples >of some things that are commonly used in violation of the rule. I should have said, and SNTP which complies with the RFC specification.... >Generally, though, Unruh is on the right lines; whilst you can make some >assumptions about the abilities of an NTP client, you can make none >about those of an SNTP one, as the specification says nothing about how >it uses the measurements it makes. (NTP is still at the mercy of >unusual configurations and hardware, software and networking issues.) >SNTP clients are often used with very long poll intervals, that are not >compatible with 1ms tracking. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
