> Why not?  You really want to as the network entries 
> will do iburst and get selected before your refclock
> does and force some clock stepping before settling down.
> I usually use maxpoll 4 as well.  The decreased jitter
> in the local signal makes higher poll rates both valid 
> and useful.

Greg, you are right. All the documentation I read before just said iburst sent 
"packets in rapid succession", but made no mention of
how fast they were sent. I just assumed multiple packets within a second (for a 
network, why would it matter?). However, after
digging around further I finally found a document that mentioned that a packet 
is sent about every two seconds.

My thinking previously was that it would do little to poll a local device that 
only output information once per second.

Learn something new every day.... ;)


Jason

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