Hi Bill, On 02/10/2013 07:44 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote:
P.S. The Meinberg article at their site says that NTP and SNTP both use TCP/IP. I know that SNTP uses UDP/IP, so perhaps they are confused. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) requires a request/confirm / indication/ /response handshake using those protocol primitives. UDP simply sends a message in the hope that it will get to the receiver. When it works, you get good time data, but you get garbage when it doesn't. The TCP handshake would be coumterproductive for NTP.
You should read "TCP/IP" as "Internet Protocols" (notice plural form here). It points to the stack of protocols, which includes stuff like ARP etc without it also being mentioned. It is common for dual uses like that. UDP comes in by association in the TCP/IP suite of protocols.
NTP and SNTP uses UDP. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
