On 2010-01-09, Michael Moroney <[email protected]> wrote: > David Woolley <[email protected]> writes: > >>Michael Moroney wrote: > >>> that synchronizes with the four clocks, and ntpq> peers shows one of the >>> primaries with a "*" in the first column meaning it was synchronized to as >>> time source, the other 3 show "+" as expected, meaning they are usable >>> sources. We disconnect the antenna of the selected clock. As expected > >>* and + mean they are used, not just that they are usable. The time >>used to discipline the clock is a weighted average of all of them. > > If it uses all of them, what is the difference between "*" and "+"? > It still doesn't explain why the disconnected clock doesn't get dropped. > >>> the clock (Spectracom) changes its stratum from 1 to 16 after a delay, and > >>If it remains the best choice it could take up to 8192 seconds before >>all the samples are flushed from the FIFO and it becomes completely >>ineligible. There is logic to discourage early switching, as clock >>hopping is, itself, considered a bad thing. > > OK, is 8192 the default time before a nonresponsive host gets dropped?
No, 8 poll intervals, whatever your poll interval is. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
