Jeremy Leibs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Jeremy Leibs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there possibly a way of configuring the maximum acceptable
> > > latency of a packet?  That is, as long as you know that for some
> > > fraction of the day (when the system is not under load) your latency
> > > is going to be less than some threshold, say, 2 ms, configuring the
> > > system to just throw away all packets with latency greater than 2
> > > ms?
> >
> > What precisely do you mean by "the system" in this context?  The
> > TCP/IP stack running on the system on which NTP is running, or in NTP
> > itself?
> >

> By system under load, I was refering to the TCP/IP stack running on
> the system on which NTP is running.  In particular, the available
> bandwidth over the wireless link.

Unless this is a packet still queued in "the system" for the system to
know the packet is 2ms old the system must have a clock reasonably
well synchronized with the sender no?

SCTP has some idea of discarding old packets as uninteresting - I am
not sure if they assume synchronized clocks or if they have done
something else.

rick jones
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