Interleaved Mode (Was: Re: Using Go for NTPsec)

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Tue Jul 6 17:43:33 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:18:26PM -0500, Richard Laager via devel wrote:
> On 7/5/21 8:38 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> > > There is a close-to-RFC to handle this area.  "Interleave" is the buzzword.  I
> > > haven't studied it.  The idea is to grab a transmit time stamp, then tweak the
> > > protocol a bit so you can send that on the next packet.
> 
> > Daniel discovered it was broken and removed it from the protcol machine.
> 
> Broken implementation or broken design? If the latter, is the current IETF
> proposal (wherever that is) still broken?

It at least seems to work without problem using chrony.


Kurt



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