ntpd

How accurate can I expect the time to be from a stratum 0 NTP server on the same subnet on ethernet?

I have an application that depends on gpsd and ntpd to accurately set the system time on a linux machine. gpsd is fed NMEA + PPS The application is punping ~25MB per second over the network and I think the loading on the system is causing jitter in the time somehow. (loaded PCI express bus causing irregular interrupt latency) I have a...

NTPD: use an unrestricted port for communication

When querying ntp servers with the command ntpdate, I can use the -u argument to make the source port an unrestricted port (port 1024 and above). With ntpd, which is meant to run in the background, I can't seem to find a way to turn this option on. So the source port is always 123. It's playing around horribly with my firewall configur...