On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceule...@computer.org>wrote:
> But I wonder what an active "connection" is in this context, since NTP > sits atop UDP. These are IP based not TCP/IP. > Do the load balancers track whether an association has > been mobilised They could although the packet inspection code on devices like this (I'm not familiar with the CAI boxes) tends toward HTTP not NTP. > , and if so do they ensure that a particular client is > always served by the same server, at least if the poll interval is > reasonable? > That seems unlikely. But we know that the major problems are congestion (which load balancing is fixing) and weak system clocks. Presumably a bit of care would cause the inside-NIST-errors to be swamped by the outside-NIST-errors. And in fact the point of the paper is using PTP with the end result that the intra-farm "errors" should (it's four years later maybe they are) be in the nano-seconds. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
