[Ntp] How many clients does a busy PTP server support?
Hal Murray <halmurray+ietf@sonic.net> Tue, 01 June 2021 22:54 UTC
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Subject: [Ntp] How many clients does a busy PTP server support?
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Most of NTS4NTP is dancing around the lack of per-client state on the server. If PTP servers only support a "small" number of clients and PTP already has a mechanism using shared keys, it might be simpler to just use TLS/whatever to setup keys. If it takes 100 bytes for a server to store a key, that's 10K clients per megabyte. Raspberry Pi-s come with gigabytes so the numbers seem worth further investigation. Does the PTP shared key stuff cover all the problems? (or enough of them to be interesting) -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.