Syncronizing time

[Uffe Gavnholt_1]

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

[harry d brown jr]

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.

[Jay Newman]

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.