[c-nsp] ntp scaling

[Nick Hilliard]

On 08/03/2010 13:13, Geert Nijs wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea how many devices/clients can synchronise time to a
> SUP720 C6500 module ?
> How does it scale ? If i point 10, 100 , 1000, ... clients to a loopback
> address on the supervisor ?

Offhand no, but why on earth would you want to use a sup720 as an NTP time
server?  You can get extremely cheap off-the-shelf hardware which will do a
much better job.  And, if the server gets overloaded, you can buy a second
server and anycast the NTP server address (i.e. completely linear scaling)

Nick