> has the authentication in place to allow it to be added on the fly, the > biggest hit to the time will be that from stopping and starting ntpd, > to > change the configuration.
So true! Are there simple instructions somewhere to allow one to setup NTPD so that ntpq.exe or ntpdc.exe can be used to change the configuration on the fly, or can someone just post a few lines here to tell how to do it? Please! Charles Elliott > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Woolley > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Question on how to Slew time in NTP (David > Woolley) > > Steve Kostecke wrote: > > > > > ntpd can normally keep your clock well within 10 ms of WAN (e.g. > > Internet) time servers, 5 ms of a LAN time server, and 0.01 ms of a > > direcly connected GPS ref-clock. Assuming that all of your time > sources > > are ultimately synced to UTC the differences between them will be > well > > within the slew/step threshold and your application won't notice a > > change in "sys_peer" (i.e. the time source you are "synced" to). > > > > Of course, if he hasn't either got the replacement server configured, > or > has the authentication in place to allow it to be added on the fly, the > biggest hit to the time will be that from stopping and starting ntpd, > to > change the configuration. > > Steve has put "synced" in quotes, because ntpd actually syncs to a > composite time from all the good servers, but needs to nominate one as > the figurehead server. > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
