On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> If you don't synchronize the clocks of the computers, they will drift
> apart. This would require continuous SNTP correction, which occurs in
> steps. These steps might not be acceptable to your applications.
xntpd (the reference implementation of NTP) changes the tick rate of the
system clock normally. Synchronization on the order of 1ms is easily
obtainable. If this suffices that is probably the way to go.
Peter
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