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

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Thu, 07 January 2021 09:13 UTC

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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




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