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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks
IMHO: What ever solution you end up proposing should able to handle (3) and should work with arbitrary boundaries for (1) & (2). We don't want to add another failure mode to the network that depends on time synchronization. You don't want to shift the problem from BGP to NTP. Regards Bora On 9/17/07 3:54 PM, "Xin Liu" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for the confusion. Let me clarify. > > We are interested in a number of questions: > 1. Can we assume loosely synchronized router clocks in the Internet, > or we have to make absolutely no assumption about router clocks at > all? > 2. If the router clocks are indeed loosely synchronized, what is the > granularity we can assume? Particularly, we are interested in whether > we can assume router clocks are synchronized within 10 minutes. > 3. It's always possible that a router's clock goes wrong. In practice, > how often does this happen? > > Thank you for all the replies. > > Best > Regards, > > Xin Liu > > On 9/17/07, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> i conversed offline with the OP. he was reading a sigcomm research >> paper and confusing it with the internet. >> >> randy
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