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Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ogud-dhc-udp-time-option-01.txt

Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> Wed, 04 December 2013 01:40 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> message dated "Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:49:25 +0100."
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Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ogud-dhc-udp-time-option-01.txt
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Kurt Roeckx writes:
> > 	 settimeofday(const struct timeval *tp, const struct timezone *tzp)
> 
> I don't think that is something we want every dhcp client to do.
> If ntpd is running you really don't want something else to change
> the time.

There is a difference between DHCP at startup and a DHCP "refresh".

I suspect that a DHCP refresh should leave the clock alone.

For the startup case:

I think the best solution to this problem for LAN-connected devices will
turn out to be PTP.  And if that is not available, if you can't trust
your DHCP server to tell you what time it is, why would you trust it to
give you an IP address?

H
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