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Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)

Paul Gear <ntp@libertysys.com.au> Thu, 07 January 2021 09:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)
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On 7/1/21 7:13 pm, Hal Murray wrote:
> Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de said:
>> My initial feeling is that a NTPv5 server should respond to v3 and v4
>> requests. If networks really have v2 clients or older, they'd need some
>> "gateway" to translate the time. 
> Requests arriving at a pool server:
>     136711  0.221% NTPv1
>      10626  0.017% NTPv2
>   16845809 27.269% NTPv3
>   44782460 72.492% NTPv4
>          3  0.000% NTPv6 - length 48
>          1  0.000% NTPv6 - length 68


Interesting - I checked for other versions when I did my sample and
didn't see anything other than v 1-4.  Maybe if I had run it for a
couple of orders of magnitude longer... :-)

Paul

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