lockclock

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Jan 6 14:28:31 UTC 2019


Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Lockclock mode is very important to the PTP people.  They use PTP to
> distribute time on the local net to the clients.  Then a PTP client can
> use NTP to server time to not PTP clients.

While I have no doubt you are correct about the PTP deployment, I see hints
in the code that lockclock mode predates PTP and was put in place for NIST. 
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