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

2010-07-10 Thread Rob
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: Rob wrote: What nearly all of them do is send a query at the specified (or fixed) interval, and put the time from the reply packet in the clock, stepping it to that value. Maybe it cannot be rightfully called SNTP, but it is what we

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

2010-07-09 Thread David Woolley
Rob wrote: What nearly all of them do is send a query at the specified (or fixed) interval, and put the time from the reply packet in the clock, stepping it to that value. Maybe it cannot be rightfully called SNTP, but it is what we have. The SNTP supplied with the reference implementation

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Woolley
Danny Mayer wrote: On 6/16/2010 5:22 PM, Maarten Wiltink wrote: Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilq6m8apeoasibr-o8mhwifqkfv9xyf6mudr...@mail.gmail.com... [...] The NTP algorithm is much more complicated than the SNTP algorithm. The short, short version:

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

2010-07-08 Thread Danny Mayer
On 7/8/2010 2:50 AM, David Woolley wrote: Danny Mayer wrote: On 6/16/2010 5:22 PM, Maarten Wiltink wrote: Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilq6m8apeoasibr-o8mhwifqkfv9xyf6mudr...@mail.gmail.com... [...] The NTP algorithm is much more complicated than

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

2010-07-08 Thread Rob
Danny Mayer ma...@ntp.org wrote: There has been no attempt to redefine SNTP. RFC 2030 is 15 years old so it's hardly recent. Tools like ntpdate are not SNTP clients by the definitions of any RFC you care to name, it just sets the clock. SNTP is a simplified protocol to discipline the clock and

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

2010-07-08 Thread David L. Mills
David, The basic definition of SNTP has not changed over the yeas, although rfc5905 does clarify the intended scope and role of primary servers, secondary servers and clients. It was the expected, but not required, model that the Unix adjtime() system call be used if the offset was less than

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Woolley
Danny Mayer wrote: RFC 2030, which RFC5905 obsoleted, said the same thing. It doesn't The substring disci appears nowhere in RFC 2030; together with failing to find anything of the sort in a quick skim, and a specific skim of the wording around the word clock!, I conclude that RFC 2030

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

2010-07-07 Thread Danny Mayer
On 6/16/2010 5:22 PM, Maarten Wiltink wrote: Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilq6m8apeoasibr-o8mhwifqkfv9xyf6mudr...@mail.gmail.com... [...] The NTP algorithm is much more complicated than the SNTP algorithm. The short, short version: there is no

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

2010-07-07 Thread Danny Mayer
On 6/17/2010 9:46 AM, 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

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

2010-06-21 Thread Terje Mathisen
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! ns (as in less than us) is absolutely possible for NTP, but it cannot be done over a network, you need a good deal of

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

2010-06-20 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-18, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote: David J Taylor wrote: Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote in message news:fcgdnxzbxfvy7ifrnz2dnuvz_sadn...@giganews.com... [] If you have a GPS timing receiver (different from navigation receiver), with a PPS

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

2010-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net 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

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

2010-06-18 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/17 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/15 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote:

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

2010-06-18 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/16 David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid 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

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

2010-06-18 Thread Maarten Wiltink
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrni1mjri.fnp.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: [...] What's your SO? Define SO. Operating System in Italian. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink

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

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/15 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody!! My question is about Time Accuracy of NTP/SNTP protocol. I want to know if is possible to have

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

2010-06-17 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/16 Rob nom...@example.com Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/16 David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/16 Maarten Wiltink maar...@kittensandcats.net Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/15 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody!! My question is about Time Accuracy of

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-16, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/16 Rob nom...@example.com (...) 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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:

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

2010-06-17 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid 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

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

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-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid David, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Very good tests and presentations!! Very very

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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Hal Murray
In article aanlktil2jbpj9p5eqfykgnjev8_ejr6ic_0cuodgf...@mail.gmail.com, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/17 Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net 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
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

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 use

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

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Rick Jones
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2010-06-17, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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,

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

2010-06-17 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Marcelo Pimenta wrote: 2010/6/17 Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net 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

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

2010-06-16 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/15 unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 with

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

2010-06-16 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 sec without a frame to discipline my clock again?

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

2010-06-16 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
2010/6/16 Rob nom...@example.com Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 sec without

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

2010-06-16 Thread 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 used with an arbitrary timebase,

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

2010-06-16 Thread Rob
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 NTP could be better to find a middle line between all these machines used as time servers.

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

2010-06-16 Thread Maarten Wiltink
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilq6m8apeoasibr-o8mhwifqkfv9xyf6mudr...@mail.gmail.com... [...] The NTP algorithm is much more complicated than the SNTP algorithm. The short, short version: there is no SNTP algorithm. SNTP is NTP _without_ the algorithms.

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

2010-06-16 Thread Maarten Wiltink
Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 increasing about

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

2010-06-15 Thread Marcelo Pimenta
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 with 50 hosts(is the same with 100 hosts?) using only swithes, no routing. All these hosts are syncronized with a Meinberg GPS.

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

2010-06-15 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 with 50 hosts(is the same with 100

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

2010-06-15 Thread unruh
On 2010-06-14, Marcelo Pimenta marcelopiment...@gmail.com 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 with 50 hosts(is the same with 100 hosts?) using only