On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:00 PM Eric Scace <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there other approaches that should be considered? > What NTP software should be used on Windows OS machines? Linux servers? Meinberg's port of ntp.org's NTP source on the Windows systems. Same (obviously not for Windows) is already on a Linux system. > Mac OS allows one choice of NTP server but does not seem to provide for > choice of NTP update frequency. Is there a 3rd party software solution, or > some other parameter within MacOS that an admin can change to (a) establish a > primary and secondary NTP server, and (b) set the frequency of NTP updates? ISTR that MacOS' most recent iteration of NTP has quirks but I don't know what they are. Previously, it was just a straight NTP client ... and NTP clients manage their update frequency dynamically based on network latency - no good reason I know of to not let it just work. If network connectivity is bad, the interval drops (minimum 2^6 s) if the connectivity is good, it increases (max 2^10 s). Those end points can probably be fiddled with in source if not in the config but again, why? -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
