> > How does one calculate what stratum their NTP server is? I'm syncing off > > four other servers, 3 of which are stratum one (according to ntpq) and the > > fourth is stratum 4. I'm paired (whatever the * is called) with a stratum 1 > > currently. Is it based on who your paired with, or is it an aggregate of all > > the servers? > > Don't worry about it. The stratum is really just there for loop-detection > (your server will be $who_you_sync_with + 1). The important measures for your > time keeping performance are offset/jitter and availability.
Eeeerrr... are you sure? AFAIK the selection algorithm prefers the lowest possible stratum refclock. Gabor _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
