topic Syncronizing time in Operating System - HP-UX

Syncronizing time

Uffe Gavnholt_1 — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:24:40 GMT

Hi,

I'm developing an application, which needs to measure delay from one end of a network to another (not round trip time, as ping). I would like some input about how the most accurate algorithm would look like.

The best idea I have right now is to divide a round trip delay by two - but I feel that there must be a better, more accurate way.

I hope you can help me out

Regards

Uffe

Re: Syncronizing time

harry d brown jr — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:31:20 GMT

Is this application a security program that tries to detect network changes? The problem is that there are just too many factors that can cause delays to get an exact measurement.

Re: Syncronizing time

Jay Newman — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:45:25 GMT

I think that traceroute may provide you with the information you need .
/usr/contrib/bin/traceroute

This will break down the total travel time into each network hop.