Hal Murray wrote: >>> If you assume a client-server model, from the client's view >>> there are 4 time stamps: >>> when the request leaves the client >>> when the request arrives at the server >>> when the response leaves the server >>> when the response arrives at the client > >> This model makes complete sense. What I'm curious about is that I >> would imagine that mode = 3, the only timestamp that is struck is the >> 'request leaves' (org) but what I see is request arrives (rec) and the >> response leaves (xmt) in the client packet. What else is odd is that >> the (org) is 10 milliseconds after the (rec) and the (xmt) is 8 >> minutes in the future! > > One thing I wasn't clear on... The code that adds the time stamps doesn't > know if it's client or server.
That's not true. If it is responding to a request then it's a server. If it's initiating the request it's a client, unless it's a broadcast/multicast server in which case it uses mode 5 packets. In addition, a client sends mode 3 (client) packets and a server sends mode 4 (server) packets. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
