Network and kernel delays might shift received NTP time from the actual server time up to a few seconds, but on the average, the time difference between two XOs that are "equally far" from the server should be negligible.
p. John Watlington wrote: > On May 18, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > >>> Assuming that things are synced closedly enough, that should make it >>> work even with enough load on the network to up the latency. >>> >> I've been assuming that the school server would be a NTP server and >> that the >> XOs would sync to it. Unless the network is loaded or flakier than >> I expect, >> the XOs should all track the school server "pretty well". >> > > Yes, NTP is one of the services provided by the school servers. > Ideally, a laptop's NTP server would be determined by a protocol > similar to the one used for internet portal and DNS server --- > identifying the "closest" server in the mesh. In any case, network > propagation time is taken into account by the NTP (although I believe > Hal is far more knowledgable than I in such matters...) > > Anybody on the XO side know if NTP is part of the build yet ? > > Cheers, > wad > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
