On May 12, 8:41 pm, "Towli" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think i may have the answer to my own question above... > I read somewhere that a man with 2 watches never know what time it is... > > My switches sees the 2 external NTP-stratum1-servers as being closer to each > other in time (due to their physical placement close to each other and > relative to my core switches). > Therefore my core switches choose to trust the to more agreeing servers as > opposed to my internal server, which is quite alone in its view on the time > and whose time differs from the 2, due to the closer proximity /smaller > delay. > Am i right in this assumption? > > I removed 1 of the external NTP servers and now my internal DCF is used as > prefered Ntp server.
I think you answered your own question once again ;) > Should i keep 1 of the external stratum-1-servers for backup or should i > remove it all together? My Dcf77 sometimes looses connection to Frankfurt > and when this happens it looses it stratum 1 value, and hence my core > switches looses synch... Yes, I would keep an external backup, probably even several, but remote from each other to avoid the problem with nonoverlapping confidence intervals you saw. Also test the configuration with just one local stratum 1 server even after you get your second one operational, to be sure that losing one of those local stratum 1 servers will not cause behavior you don't want. I would also suggest you consider using hosts running NTP version 4, rather than switches running an adaptation of NTP version 3. The switches are designed and optimized to shuffle packets, not keep time. Precision of 2**-6 means the switches are stepping time 64 times per second, or every 15.6 milliseconds. You shouldn't rely on such crude machinery as the local distribution mechanism. ntpd easily coexists with most other software and has very light resource requirements, even serving large numbers of clients, so it should be possible to find a few suitable servers. Alternatively, you can find NTP appliances or build one yourself with a $200 Soekris or similar embedded platform. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
