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General Discussion / Re: ntp polling interval

« on: March 29, 2022, 02:36:03 pm »

Well, should have been a simple two or three post enquiry! And with all due respect; rather than a pub table discussion about other peoples experiences and opinions in different scenarios.
Plenty of papers around about offset time drift in peer host synchronization, in IEEE and ACM, etc. But that doesn't solve/answer the original question.
So, in the absence of a definitive response, I'll have to git clone the repository and dig through the code. 
Somewhat disappointing for what I would have expected to be a professional and collaborative forum.

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General Discussion / Re: ntp polling interval

« on: March 29, 2022, 04:36:37 am »

Well, time sync updates are in the order of >5 in a 20 minute period. That would be one significant reason.
On a Linux server, I would be setting that to no more than four times a day, with the minimum and maximum poll intervals. As OPNsense is not using the usual ntp.conf -or- chrony.conf configuration files, I venture to ask what is the 'best practice' method on OPNsense/FreeBSD?

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General Discussion / ntp polling interval

« on: March 28, 2022, 09:11:02 am »

I there a way to change the ntp "polling interval", so that the time synchronisation interval is longer than the default?