David Taylor wrote:
On 28/11/2013 07:46, [email protected] wrote:
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My time source come from GPS software getting GPS time running in
Windows Server 2008 R2;
Windows Server 2008 R2 --NTP sync--Linux Cent OS 6.2--w32TIME
Sync--Windows XP/7
NTP Version NTP 4.2.4 P8
If that is /just/ GPS time, it's likely no better than an Internet
server.
xiaoniao112233 wrote:
"My time source come from GPS software getting GPS time running in
Windows Server 2008 R2"
In my opinion this sounds like some other piece of software running on
the Windows machine, which gets the time from some GPS receiver and
disciplines the system time.
In such case ntpd only had to make the disciplined system time available
on the network, e.g. using the local clock driver with stratum-0.
We use a similar approach with the driver software for our GPS PCI cards
under Windows.
However, the question is how good and smoothly the other software
synchronized the system time. If it does this only by setting the
Windows time in periodic intervals, maybe only with limited resolution
or accuracy, this could result in time steps in Windows, which could
cause the Linux client also to step the time if the steps back and forth
exceed 12 ms.
This would explain the reason for the OP's initial questions, how the
128 ms could be changed in ntpd.
If my assumptions are true then this is a very bad overall timekeeping
configuration.
You should be using a PPS (pulse per second) feed to your
primary NTP server to get best performance. As others have said, if you
could (a) use the Linux box as your primary NTP server and (b) feed it
with PPS, you would have a better configuration.
You can even use the low-cost Raspberry Pi as a Linux NTP server, in a
variety of configurations, as I describe here:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html
Perhaps you could use the Raspberry Pi as your low-cost, primary NTP
server?
Basically you're right, but it the OP relies on some other Windows
software getting the time from his GPS device then eventually he can't
switch to Linux. We'd need to know more details from the OP, but his
replies are very short and not very precise.
Martin
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Martin Burnicki
Meinberg Funkuhren
Bad Pyrmont
Germany
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