On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:46:44 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A member of the pool pointed out the information[1] on how many  
>packets per second to expect is a little misleading.
>
>To add some "real world" data I ran ethereal for a couple of minutes  
>on one of my servers.  I got ~40-50 packets per second (~30Kb/sec).    
>Is that typical?
>
>My servers are also listed on the "public stratum 2 servers" page, so  
>I'm not sure how much traffic is from there.
>
>
>  - ask
>
>[1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html

here are my hourly packet counts for last 10 hours -
(counted at the IPTables level, not by ntp)

Sun Aug 21 13:00:13 2005 - 20808 pkts, 1352 users.
Sun Aug 21 14:00:13 2005 - 16784 pkts, 1264 users.
Sun Aug 21 15:00:13 2005 - 17471 pkts, 1281 users.
Sun Aug 21 16:00:13 2005 - 15714 pkts, 1236 users.
Sun Aug 21 17:00:13 2005 - 19271 pkts, 1439 users.
Sun Aug 21 18:00:13 2005 - 19650 pkts, 3869 users.
Sun Aug 21 19:00:13 2005 - 91692 pkts, 4415 users.
Sun Aug 21 20:00:13 2005 - 100266 pkts, 4015 users.
Sun Aug 21 21:00:13 2005 - 21770 pkts, 1984 users.
Sun Aug 21 22:00:13 2005 - 19460 pkts, 1351 users.

this is the first time I have ever had a 6 figure count in hour!
20k/hr seems to be my 'idle' level (long term ntp users?) The rest I
assume is ntpdate stuff, via cron jobs when my ipaddress is in given
out in the dns replies.

best regards
Dave
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