On 2010-02-22, ryandoyle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 23, 1:03 am, Thomas Laus <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Configuring the min and max poll for a reference clock sort of goes >> against the grain of how ntp is supposed to work. Let the daemon >> adjust things according to how the clock is performing in relation to >> the it's other sources of information. It needs to have the maximum >> degree of freedom in order to converge on the best solution! > > All the sample ntp.conf files had max and mix poll configured, I was > just following these.
It is very common to set minpoll 4 and maxpoll 4 for GPS ref-clocks connected the NMEA driver (such as the GPS-18LVC). I have personally used those minpoll/maxpoll settings for my GPS-18LVC because they *did* help. > Should these not be entered? Use them if they improve the stability of your clock. YMMV -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
