Topic: NTP too frequent

[Graeme Robinson]

NTP server in e-smith is a good feature but I don't use it as it's frequent checking seems excessive - once or twice a day would surely be enough - can this be adjusted in upcoming versions or an option added to vary the frequency of updates?

[Andrew Arthur]

I Agree,

I couldn't work out why my ISDN connection seemed up almost permanently until I checked the router log and found NTP to be the culprit.

[Sergio]

It seems that what is needed is an option to specify the frequency of  the updates.

[Lowell]

But then again, it would be good for others to see it request that information once every 300 seconds for us that are on line 24/7 so the arp caches don't time out.  Pro / con...
Food for thought....

[Scott Smith]

Lowell wrote:
>
> But then again, it would be good for others to see it request
> that information once every 300 seconds for us that are on
> line 24/7 so the arp caches don't time out.

Then what is really needed is a configurable frequency:

1 min
3 min
5 min
10 min
30 min
1 hour
4 hours
8 hours
12 hours
24 hours

That might be overkill, but it would do the trick. Or just have a number of seconds field that could be filled in -- let's see, once per day is 60 secs/min * 60 mins/hour * 24 hours/day =