is it planned to use chronyd instead of ntpd on 20.1? chrony is much better in general, but in particular for machine with a bad hardware clock, or for virtual machines
unrelated to that it would be nice to have, on ntp conf:
- configure peers and not only servers
- minpoll (some ntp servers are not happy with too frequent requests)
- GPS/PPS conf currently is or prefer or noselect, it should be possible to have nothing specified
cheers
As there was no real request it wont be changed in 20.1. Maybe you can start with a feature request via github?
Quote from: mimugmail on January 10, 2020, 09:01:47 AM
As there was no real request it wont be changed in 20.1. Maybe you can start with a feature request via github?
I am not used to open requests since it's just a nice to have, and don't want to bother the guys, who have already a lot of stuff to do :)
But I will do an exception, eventually they will reject the request
Cheers
As far as I know this daemon is intended for clients and maybe servers but it cannot distribute the time in the network which would make sense in case of a domain controller or any kind of router which is accessible from every host to sync times.
Quote from: fabian on January 11, 2020, 07:31:24 AM
As far as I know this daemon is intended for clients and maybe servers but it cannot distribute the time in the network which would make sense in case of a domain controller or any kind of router which is accessible from every host to sync times.
Not sure if I understood what you mean, but it's indeed intended for servers too, it still speak NTP, every NTP client (or SNTP for windows you mentioned) can use it.
I built my own GPS/NTP server using a Pi and chronyd, it works like a charm: https://www.signorini.ch/content/gps-for-time-synchronization
I could try to participate in this community and create a plugin, following mimugmail tutorial, I will let you know if I succeed :)
First, wait for 20.1, then we will see if we get a pkg for it. Then we can start with a plugin
Quote from: mimugmail on January 11, 2020, 08:52:38 AM
First, wait for 20.1, then we will see if we get a pkg for it. Then we can start with a plugin
OK master :)
Quote from: siga75 on January 10, 2020, 08:05:56 AM
unrelated to that it would be nice to have, on ntp conf:
- configure peers and not only servers
Chrony meanwhile is existing as a plugin. I will try out when I find time.
But this point above is what I am still missing in the current NTP config: peers.