On 2014-09-11, mike cook <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Le 11 sept. 2014 ? 18:48, Rob a ?crit :
>
>> Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> As an aside has anyone tried shaping traffic to make the
>>> upstream/downstream latencies similar?  It would seem more efficient
>>> to apply network solutions to network problems if possible.
>> 
>> That does not work.  The asymmetry is not caused by traffic but by
>> modem parameters.
>
>   Did I miss something? The OP did not offer any evidence that there was path 
> asymmetry, just that there was an unexplained offset between two GPS sync'd 
> servers. It is often not possible to identify the origin of such an offset, 
> but it would help if the suggested feature was implemented to take care of 
> these corner cases. I saw that Dr Mills was in agreement back in 2005 but 
> that the implementation is complex. If anyone wants a subject for an MSc 
> project, this could be it.

No idea why a fudge parameter would be complicated. If you wanted to use
ntpd itself to figure out the assymmetry, that could well be
complicated. But if it is a fixed offset, I cannot see how that would be
complicated and it ihas already been implimented in the refclock case.

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