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Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Sep 17 17:13:33 2007

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:10:31 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Xin Liu <smilerliu@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ea11805f0709171403x7d60cfb6yd4c85747bb08804c@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Xin Liu wrote:
> If a router's clock is off by more than 5 minutes, it cannot forward 
> packets

this is false.  i suggest you do more reading.

randy

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