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Re: clock synchronization over IP

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On 21.9.2018 г. 17:00, Chris wrote:
> On 08/25/18 01:54, gp.kiwi@gmail.com wrote:
>> We need to synchronize clocks (so we can synchronize audio) on
>> physically separated controllers that are connected via ethernet that
>> may or may not be connected to the internet.  The controllers have
>> ARM9 LPC3250 SOM and embedded Linux.  We need to synch with no more
>> than 50 ms difference but preferably less.  Synchronization needs to
>> continue working between any two controllers regardless of the failure
>> of any other controller.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea what is the easiest way to do this?
>
> Read all the replies about ntp etc, but perhaps
> look at this another way ?. Rather than each client
> *requesting* time, how about a server / node
> broadcasting time to the net, with each client
> locking on to that ?. Not sure if there are any
> standards for it, but may be be worth having
> a look.
>
> That would get rid of any client / server request
> delays altogether, with sync offsets determined
> entirely by the client software, probably down
> to microseconds...
>
> Chris
>

I think the idea is excellent. Broadcast a packet - on the same
Ethernet branch (as is the case of the OP I think) there will be
no skew to talk about; then have all recipients confirm to the
server they got the time, and once the server receives all confirmations
from all active hosts (it will need to know which these are) it safely
(via tcp) tells each host the broadcast time it got is now universally
valid.

Dimiter

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clock  synchronization over IP gp.kiwi@gmail.com - 2018-08-24 17:54 -0700
  Re: clock  synchronization over IP Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-24 18:28 -0700
  Re: clock  synchronization over IP wzab01@gmail.com - 2018-09-15 09:00 -0700
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP gp.kiwi@gmail.com - 2018-09-15 15:08 -0700
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2018-09-16 08:49 -0400
        Re: clock  synchronization over IP gp.kiwi@gmail.com - 2018-09-17 01:45 -0700
          Re: clock  synchronization over IP George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2018-09-17 11:30 -0400
            Re: clock  synchronization over IP gp.kiwi@gmail.com - 2018-09-17 15:04 -0700
              Re: clock  synchronization over IP George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2018-09-17 22:10 -0400
                Re: clock  synchronization over IP graeme.prentice@gmail.com - 2018-09-18 04:23 -0700
                Re: clock  synchronization over IP Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.org> - 2018-09-18 13:19 +0000
                Re: clock  synchronization over IP Mikko OH2HVJ <mikko.syrjalahti@nospam.fi> - 2018-09-19 18:56 +0300
                Re: clock  synchronization over IP upsidedown@downunder.com - 2018-09-22 11:51 +0300
          Re: clock synchronization over IP Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2018-09-18 21:10 +1000
  Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-21 15:00 +0100
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2018-09-21 17:12 +0300
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-21 09:58 -0500
        Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-21 16:26 +0100
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-21 16:02 +0100
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2018-09-21 17:15 -0400
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-21 22:35 +0100
        Re: clock  synchronization over IP "gp.kiwi@gmail.com" <graeme.prentice@gmail.com> - 2018-09-21 15:16 -0700
          Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-22 00:11 +0100
            Re: clock  synchronization over IP "gp.kiwi" <graeme.prentice@gmail.com> - 2018-09-21 16:35 -0700
              Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-22 14:19 +0100
              Re: clock  synchronization over IP gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-09-22 07:22 -0700
            Re: clock  synchronization over IP graeme.prentice@gmail.com - 2018-09-21 19:40 -0700
        Re: clock  synchronization over IP George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2018-09-21 22:17 -0400
          Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-22 13:58 +0100
          Re: clock synchronization over IP Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> - 2018-09-22 18:50 +0000
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP upsidedown@downunder.com - 2018-09-22 11:56 +0300
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-09-22 07:31 -0700
        Re: clock  synchronization over IP upsidedown@downunder.com - 2018-09-22 20:02 +0300
          Re: clock  synchronization over IP gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-09-22 14:40 -0700
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-09-22 07:06 -0700
    Re: clock  synchronization over IP Mikko OH2HVJ <mikko.syrjalahti@nospam.fi> - 2018-09-22 20:16 +0300
      Re: clock  synchronization over IP Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-09-22 22:22 +0100

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