Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
"David Woolley" wrote in message news:hve58p$8l...@news.eternal-september.org... [] Windows tends to use a broken SNTP. Recent versions can be configured to act as (almost?) compliant NTP clients and servers. [] .. but thanks to the great work of Dave Hart, Meinberg, and others recently Win

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
"Richard B. Gilbert" wrote in message news:fcgdnxzbxfvy7ifrnz2dnuvz_sadn...@giganews.com... [] If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation receiver), with a PPS output, one edge of that pulse should be accurate to within 50 nanoseconds. A serial output will tell you which sec

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
"Marcelo Pimenta" wrote in message news:aanlktilffevh94cief43-ewqbc2dtqev4dbbpfs1d...@mail.gmail.com... [] Yes, I agree. But we were talking about NTP using Ethernet, so... that's impossible Even with Ethernet, temperature variations at the client will have a noticeable effect (at least they

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: 2010/6/17 Richard B. Gilbert Marcelo Pimenta wrote: Yes!! My question is about ms(MILIsecond) a collegue of this forum said that NTP give nsec accurancy... Is impossible to have usec imagine nsec! Thanks If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: Here's a snapshot of my "main" system showing an offset of 340us (0.340ms) from it's sys_peer over a switched GigE LAN ... Which doesn't mean the error is .34 ms; it is quite likely less than .1ms, assuming no systematic componen

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Rick Jones
David Woolley wrote: > SNTP as used on Windows to access the Microsoft timeserver certainly > can't. Anything that runs on Windows that sets the clock on ever > poll almost certainly can't for any reasonable application load. On > Linux you have to beware of interrupt latency, NIC interrupt > ag

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > Yes, I agree. But we were talking about NTP using Ethernet, so... that's > impossible Here's a snapshot of my "main" system showing an offset of 340us (0.340ms) from it's sys_peer over a switched GigE LAN ... remote refid st t when poll reach

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David Woolley
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: I thought that SNTP was used in a kind of "Intranet" with no routers and no internet, so the low latency there is no need of so much calculations to adjust the clock. As W32Time is not fully NTP compliant, out of the box, it is probably currently true that most SNTP us

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David Woolley
Rob wrote: With NTP a single query does not affect the time so much, because successive queries are fed through a filter to find the average, and the time is not stepped but slowly changed to the new value. So when there is an occasional delay in your network it will not affect the time accura

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 Richard B. Gilbert > Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > >> Yes!! My question is about ms(MILIsecond) a collegue of this forum said >> that >> NTP give nsec accurancy... Is impossible to have usec imagine nsec! >> >> Thanks >> >> > If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation recei

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
In article , Marcelo Pimenta writes: >I thought that SNTP was used in a kind of "Intranet" with no routers and no >internet, so the low latency there is no need of so much calculations to >adjust the clock. I haven't been able to figure out what you are really trying to ask. The packets on the

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: Yes!! My question is about ms(MILIsecond) a collegue of this forum said that NTP give nsec accurancy... Is impossible to have usec imagine nsec! Thanks If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation receiver), with a PPS output, one edge of that pulse sho

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
Yes!! My question is about ms(MILIsecond) a collegue of this forum said that NTP give nsec accurancy... Is impossible to have usec imagine nsec! Thanks 2010/6/17 David J Taylor > David, >> >> CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very good tests and presentations!! Very very good!!! >> You >> gave me real result

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
David, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very good tests and presentations!! Very very good!!! You gave me real results and all your reports are consistent and show that it's impossible to have usec and nsec precision using NTP though Ethernet. You have SO stack latency and it's a Layer 7 protocol!!! One m

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 David J Taylor > NTP can deliver a time accuracy of 1nsec?? I my point of view, NTP >> includes >> methods to estimate the round-trip path delay between the server and >> client >> but the performance is limited by SO stack latency, it is an Application >> Layer protocol. >> > > Marcel

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd and IPv6 addresses

2010-06-17 Thread Danny Mayer
On 6/17/2010 7:54 AM, Kiss Gabor wrote: > Is there any way to configure which IPv6 address is used as > source address when ntpd sends a query to a lower stratum NTP server? > > Gabor > Not yet. That's the query-on functionality that I have been implementing. I've just been swamped with other is

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 Rob > Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > >> > In my case, I have* only one* network. My Time Server is not a > machine, > >> is a > >> > meinberg GPS. In my point of view, if my source time were machines, > maybe > >> A Meingerg GPS IS a machine. > >> > > > > I agree, I said machines equipment l

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: >> > In my case, I have* only one* network. My Time Server is not a machine, >> is a >> > meinberg GPS. In my point of view, if my source time were machines, maybe >> A Meingerg GPS IS a machine. >> > > I agree, I said machines equipment like PC computers with Windows or Lin

Re: [ntp:questions] proprietary hardware clock as NTP reference source

2010-06-17 Thread apobrien
On Jun 13, 12:21 am, Rob Neal wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:26:13PM -0700, apobrien wrote: > > Hello list, > > > I have a set of proprietary hardware timing cards (Symmetricom > > bc635PCIe) which synchronize their clocks using a dedicated > > interconnect.  As you might imagine the timing c

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread David J Taylor
NTP can deliver a time accuracy of 1nsec?? I my point of view, NTP includes methods to estimate the round-trip path delay between the server and client but the performance is limited by SO stack latency, it is an Application Layer protocol. Marcelo, here's what /my/ NTP achieves: http://www.

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > Yep but I have an equipment for specific use with RFC2030 implemented > because of a standard that I have follow that say it is mandatory SNTP - > RFC2030. My equipment ask for time every minute and frequence tolerance of > the crystal is less then 1ms/min. They are in a i

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > I thought that SNTP was used in a kind of "Intranet" with no routers and no > internet, so the low latency there is no need of so much calculations to > adjust the clock. No, SNTP is used by software manufacturers who are too lazy to implement full NTP. _

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 unruh > On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > > 2010/6/16 Rob > > > (...) > > > In my case, I have* only one* network. My Time Server is not a machine, > is a > > meinberg GPS. In my point of view, if my source time were machines, maybe > A Meingerg GPS IS a machine. > I agree, I

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 unruh > On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > > 2010/6/15 unruh > > > >> On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > >> > Hi everybody!! > >> > > >> > My question is about Time Accuracy of NTP/SNTP protocol. I want to > know > >> if > >> > is possible to have precision of 1ms(could be

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/16 Maarten Wiltink > "Marcelo Pimenta" wrote in message > news:aanlktilaoduniqjgpigohpzvjcv_zmsw_tr7naj6b...@mail.gmail.com... > > > [...] accuracy of 1ms. On a local network 100usec?? Even if we use > > only switches(no routers), how is that possible if I have 4 types of > > Latency incr

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/16 David Woolley > Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > > >> Rob, my understading about the use of SNTP and NTP is: while SNTP provides >> time synchronization within *one *network, NTP allows a global time >> > > You are confusing it with timed. SNTP also expects to use global time, and > NTP can be

[ntp:questions] ntpd and IPv6 addresses

2010-06-17 Thread Kiss Gabor
Is there any way to configure which IPv6 address is used as source address when ntpd sends a query to a lower stratum NTP server? Gabor ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock driver for /dev/rtc

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
unruh wrote: > OK, if that is the way your virtual system works, (Ie it delivers the > system time via /dev/rtc) then so be it. I would say it is terrible, > since it uses a predefined item ( rtc) to deliver something totally > different ( the system time of the underlying host) That is the main

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > 2010/6/16 Rob > >> Marcelo Pimenta wrote: >> > The idea to have this is not overload the network asking time every >> second >> > to keep my accurancy in 1ms in 100% of time. And the second reason is >> about >> > how many ms your clock will be wrong in 59

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP with 1ms of precision?

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: > 2010/6/15 unruh > >> On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta wrote: >> > Hi everybody!! >> > >> > My question is about Time Accuracy of NTP/SNTP protocol. I want to know >> if >> > is possible to have precision of 1ms(could be < 1 ms?) using SNTP in a >> > network

Re: [ntp:questions] Routers and NTP Timing loops

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Jacobs, Kevin J. wrote: > I had an interesting experience with a Cisco router as "ntp master 9" using > itself as an NTP source and it's neighboring switch as the only other NTP > source. > The switch had the exact same configuration right back at the router!. So > what happens

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock driver for /dev/rtc

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Krejci, Pavel wrote: > Hi, > >> -Original Message- >> From: unruh [mailto:un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:15 PM >> To: questions@lists.ntp.org >> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock driver for /dev/rtc >> >> On 2010-06-15, Krejci, Pa