Miroslav, David, Thank you both very much for your input. I will try Miroslav's suggestions tomorrow or the day after, and report the results.
About the GW2348-4 RTC: I cannot use it at all with ntpd, right? I couldn't find anything on the web, but then again ntp is pretty new to me. Probably I mix things up here. Florian David Woolley wrote: > Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > >> >> The most important thing is to set minpoll and maxpoll for the server >> specified in ntp.conf. Generally, lower is better unless the network >> load to the NTP server is a concern. With ntp-4.2.4 the allowed >> minimum is 4, with 4.2.6 and it's 3. > > This is not the official policy, which is that the defaults are about > right. > > Setting low values will result in excess jitter, because you will tend > to track the effects of varying network load, rather than smoothing them > out. > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
