["Followup-To:" header set to comp.protocols.time.ntp.] On 2010-02-12, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> We use our one of our data centers internal default gateway (Router). >>> Everything feeds off of that. >>> It had best work well. It was $100K +. >>> >> So what benefit is that $100K extra stratum gaining you? It has to be >> more than just splitting the UDP/IP path to the lower stratum servers in >> twain. But it's not reliability, because if your router goes down it >> still takes your NTP server with it. So what is it? Do you perhaps > > The big advantage of such a setup is that all your systems will agree > on the same time. Locally you have short roundtrip time variations so > the polls of the local NTP server have small jitter and are not affected > by the loading of the internet link. > > It is usually more important that all systems have the same time, than > that this time is very accurate.
But $100K? I can buy a linux box with 5GPS receivers for $1K. or but 5 boxes each with its own GPS for $2K-- massive reduncancy. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
