[ntp:questions] what is a good book an the NTP that expains the math behind it

2011-07-02 Thread chipper
What is a good book on ntp that explains the math behind the protocal. Thanks Chip ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] what is a good book an the NTP that expains the math behind it

2011-07-02 Thread David Woolley
chipper wrote: What is a good book on ntp that explains the math behind the protocal. As far as I know, there is only one book on NTP. I believe it has a mathematical analysis, but it is almost certainly written for someone with a background in control theory and phase locked loops. If you

Re: [ntp:questions] Network problems affecting NTP

2011-07-02 Thread David Woolley
Eugen COCA wrote: Due to a network problem on our provider, the packets were routed on a Duplicate thread. different path than usual yesterday, for several hours. This period, NTP displayed wrong offsets: +GPS_NMEA(1) .GPS.0 l 16 16 3770.000 0.001 0.002 ptbtime1.p

Re: [ntp:questions] Something for distributing a PPS signal?

2011-07-02 Thread David J Taylor
"E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists" wrote in message news:iulje3$ahd$1...@dont-email.me... [] Unless I'm off by a magnitude somewhere; Copper wire is about 0.3m/ns? 100m ~= 333+ns? The differences in e.g. PC serial port implementations between different PPS recipi

Re: [ntp:questions] what is a good book an the NTP that expains the math behind it

2011-07-02 Thread David J Taylor
What is a good book on ntp that explains the math behind the protocal. Thanks Chip See Dave Mills' book: ISBN 0849358051 http://books.slashdot.org/story/06/05/15/143251/Computer-Network-Time-Synchronization Cheers, David ___ questions mailin

[ntp:questions] Something for distributing a PPS signal? (was: Re: Notions of Time in Computer Architecture)

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Jones
Over in comp.arch, this was mentioned as how one might get time to the far reaches of a chip with equal delay. I recall that someone not too long ago wanted to distribute a PPS signal to a bunch of systems, and thought this might be helpful. rick jones [ This is a repost of the following article

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdsim

2011-07-02 Thread David Woolley
Tobias wrote: http://superuser.com/questions/304085/ntpdsim-simulator-for-ntp You could have copied the contents onto the newsgroup (also your post has been delayed through not posting it direct to usenet). I've never used the simulator, but for a real ntpd, localhost can never be a vali

Re: [ntp:questions] Network problems affecting NTP

2011-07-02 Thread Hal Murray
In article <51c20190-11b8-4629-a762-cbf95369e...@r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>, Eugen COCA writes: >Due to a network problem on our provider, the packets were routed on a >different path than usual yesterday, for several hours. This period, >NTP displayed wrong offsets: ntpd assumes the network

[ntp:questions] Network problems affecting NTP

2011-07-02 Thread Eugen COCA
Due to a network problem on our provider, the packets were routed on a different path than usual yesterday, for several hours. This period, NTP displayed wrong offsets: +GPS_NMEA(1) .GPS.0 l 16 16 3770.000 0.001 0.002 ptbtime1.ptb.de .PTB.1 u4 64 377

Re: [ntp:questions] Something for distributing a PPS signal?

2011-07-02 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Rick Jones wrote: > Over in comp.arch, this was mentioned as how one might get > time to the far reaches of a chip with equal delay. > I recall that someone not too long ago wanted to > distribute a PPS signal to a bunch of systems, > and thought this might be helpful. > > John Savard wrote:

Re: [ntp:questions] Controlling the combine algorithm

2011-07-02 Thread David L. Mills
Steve, The combine algorithm operates on the survivors of the cluster algorithm, as described on the "How NTP Works" page. The number of survivors can be set using the minclock option. I'm not sure why you want to do this, but the option is there. Dave Steve Kostecke wrote: Is it possible