roeber@cithe2.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber) (11/04/90)
In article <14267@accuvax.nwu.edu>, coffland@roxanne (Doug Coffland) writes: > Another shortfall is that the time provided across a packet network > whether it originates from a peripheral applications processor or from > the ISDN itself is subject to error equal to packet delay across the > network. RFC-1059 "Network Time Protocol (NTP)" describes (or at least points to the paper describing) the algorithm used to solve this problem in the IP network time protocol. Last I checked, RFC's can be ftp'd from nic.ddn.mil. Frederick G. M. Roeber | e-mail: roeber@caltech.edu or roeber@vxcern.cern.ch r-mail: CERN/SL-CO, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | telephone: +41 22 767 5373
elkins@uunet.uu.net (Rob Elkins) (11/09/90)
In article <14292@accuvax.nwu.edu> roeber@cithe2.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber) writes: >In article <14267@accuvax.nwu.edu>, coffland@roxanne (Doug Coffland) >writes: >RFC-1059 "Network Time Protocol (NTP)" describes (or at least points >to the paper describing) the algorithm used to solve this problem in >the IP network time protocol. Last I checked, RFC's can be ftp'd >from nic.ddn.mil. My EE Professor David Mills (Univ Delaware) is the creator of NTP. Brillant Man. His stuff is (was) available via anon FTP from louie.udel.edu Rob Elkins E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co, Inc Email: elkinsra%mlvax%dupont.com@csnet-relay Voice: 215-339-6253