Here http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/select.html : <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/select.html>"The selection metric, called the root distance,, is one-half the roundtrip root delay plus the root dispersion plus minor error contributions not considered here."
So root distance includes root dispersion ( which is always zero for clocks and non zero for v4 servers ). And dispersion is not included in root distance. So the question still remains 2013/8/20 Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> > David Woolley writes: > > On 19/08/13 10:29, Nikolai Orekhov wrote: > > > >> Imagine there's ntp server and reference clock. Reference clock > >> always has root distance equal to zero, so it will always be prefered > >> to ntp ( unless ntp has "prefer" keyword ) > > > > As I remember it, root distance includes dispersion. > > Yes, root distance includes dispersion. > > H > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
