On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Dave Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Use ntpdc -c iostats to sample some of your S1 servers over time and > determine their peak and/or average queries per second. Unless they > are seeing hundreds or thousands of queries per second, my guess is > you're better off using unicast (or manycast, which operates as > unicast after server discovery). If you are seeing substantial load > on your S1s, you might consider an intermediate layer of S2 servers to > handle the client load while minimizing traffic to the S1s -- there is > very little difference in time service quality from S2s on the same > LAN as their S1 sources. >
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this command, and I admit I haven't read much on manycast. Sounds like manycast might be a solution for us. I'll look into it. Thanks again for your help, Jari _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
