[time-nuts] NTP Time Server Ping Timing Stability
Brooke Clarke
brooke at pacific.net
Sun Aug 5 23:33:56 UTC 2007
Hi Hal:
I'm in Califoria on the other side of the country from Atlanta, GA where the
big dish is located.
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.precisionclock.com
Hal Murray wrote:
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>>I'm curious about the stability of Ping timing between high quality
>>NTP servers. Is it the case that a histogram will show different
>>times because the path may be different between the two servers but
>>the spread for any given path would be quite small because of the
>>quality of the timing?
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> NTP measures the transit time in both directions. It assumes symmetry and
> calculates the offset as half the difference and uses that to adjust the
> local clock.
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> Assuming you have good clocks on both ends:
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> If you plot the offset vs round trip time, you get an arrow pointing left.
> The point (blob) of the arrow is the best case. The edges of the arrow are
> due to queuing delays in one direction or the other. You also get some
> scattered points trying to fill in the arrow from queuing delays in both
> directions.
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> If you plot round-trip time vs time of day, you can see occasional jumps
> where the network path changes, or somebody starts a big download that fills
> up one side of a pipe for a while.
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>>Or if I was pinged would the wander of the satellite in the link show
>>up or is my stock PC so crude it swamps the satellite wander?
>>148.78.32.98 or 148.78.32.97 not sure if those are visible on the net.
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> ping just gives you the round trip time. I'm not sure where ntp fits in.
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> It's reasonable to get ntp with a GPS clock running in the few microsecond
> range. I'd guess you might see satellite wander if that covers a few miles.
> It might be hard to see in all the other network noise.
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> Where are you located (packet hops, not crow fiies) relative to the satellite
> ground stations?
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