> >> I wonder if forming peer groups offers some benefits or not. > >> How peering affects offset or other quality parameters? > >> Is it worth to work on it? > > > > Certainly it is worth configuring all of your local NTP servers to > > query each other as peers-- having at least 5 servers set up helps > > the NTP falseticker algorithm choose more stable clocks. It's not > > going to be a big problem if you don't set them up as peers, but it > > will help.... > > It will benefit the group of servers if the servers have very little overlap > in > server configuration, but if all 5 point to the exact same servers it > provides > little. Make sure to set each server to a unique set of servers. This is > where > peering provides it's benefits.
In this case there is no use setting up a peer group. Getting very different sets of stratum 1 references seems to be problematic. (As I wrote I manage stratum 2 pool servers.) Thanks. Gabor _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
