Impact of ARP lookup on local NTP traffic

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue May 31 01:13:35 UTC 2016


gem at rellim.com said:
> Yes, but then that would only work for some version of Linux.  Changing
> minpoll fixes all OS, and keeps the change local to avoid unintended
> consequences. 

Only if they have a timeout in the right range.

You probably want to change maxpoll rather than minpoll.



>> I haven't found a simple way to print out the timer from
>> the command line.
> Which timer?  The poll times are in 'ntpq -p' 

I was thinking of the time remaining in an arp slot.


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