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[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption

Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Wed, 02 June 2021 06:14 UTC

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From: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
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Subject: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption
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>>> Danny Mayer <mayer@pdmconsulting.net> schrieb am 01.06.2021 um 19:24 in
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> On 6/1/21 11:42 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure I follow here. You can send NTP requests at any rate you
>> like. That doesn't require a new protocol. The poll field is a signed
>> 8‑bit integer if you had a server that actually looked in the content
>> of the field.
> 
> I hope not. How would you implement a negative poll interval? :)

Well actually 2^x remains positive even if x is negative ;-)

> 
> It really should be unsigned. If not, then that's really an error.
> 
> Danny
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