RFC 1305:Network Time Protocol (Version 3) ...
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Number of Peer


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... NTP.MINCLOCK): When the selection algorithm suggested in Section 4 is used, this is the minimum number of peers acceptable for synchronization. ...
... NTP.MAXCLOCK): When the selection algorithm suggested in Section 4 is used, this is the maximum number of peers considered for selection. ...
... (lowest stratum) of the synchronization subnet and with a relatively large number of peers on an intermittent basis. In this mode the identity of the peer need not be known in ...


... Counter: This is a four-bit integer indicating the number of peer exception events that occurred since the last time the peer status word was returned in a response or included in a trap message. The counter is cleared when returned in the ...


... Version 3 also incorporates two new optional features, (1) an algorithm to combine the offsets of a number of peer time servers in order to enhance accuracy and (2) improved local-clock algorithms ...
... In Version 3 a new algorithm to combine the offsets of a number of peer time servers is presented in Appendix F. This algorithm is modelled on ...


... When a number of peers are considered for synchronization and two or more are determined to be correctly synchronized to a primary reference ...



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