General NTP questions

[Carl Johnson]

Quartz <quartz at sneakertech.com> writes:

> In general, do FreeBSD and related OSs (Dragonfly, OSX, etc) have ways
> of restricting the ntp drift to always be within certain known-sane
> parameters, and/or ways of manually adjusting the drift on the fly
> without having to stop and restart ntpd?

I think the -f option to ntptime(8) will adjust it as you want, but I
don't know how to limit it.  I think the only limits are that it has to
be within ±500ppm.
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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org