On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:33:37AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > Peering seems natural for the case where you have 2 equal servers and you > want them to keep an eye on each other. Aside from reducing the number of > packets by a factor of 2, are there any reasons for using peer rather than > server? Is there any extra information exchanged?
Two reasons: - ability to push synchronization to the other host, which may simplify configuration management a bit as only one peer (active) has to be configured with the address of the other peer (passive) - interleaved mode, which allows the peers to exchange transmit timestamps after packets are sent in order to improve accuracy with HW timestamping -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ TICTOC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc
