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Jan 22 22:21:05: NTP: Drift exceeds +392ppm, cannot cope

Ahmede
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We are geeting this message on 2 of our routers, it happens evvery few weeks.. Anybody knows what does it mean ?

Jan 22 22:21:05: NTP: Drift exceeds +392ppm, cannot cope

It's 7513 router........

Thanks for your help........

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donewald
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This just means that the NTP server that this router is synching with is drifting it's expected time. (below more details). This might be a problem with what ever is your NTP server.

The frequency tolerance of computer clock oscillators can vary widely, which can put a strain on the daemon's ability to compensate for the intrinsic frequency error. While the daemon can handle frequency errors up to 500 parts-per-million (PPM), or 43 seconds per day, values much above 100 PPM reduce the headroom and increase the time to learn the particular value and record it in the ntp.drift file. In extreme cases before the particular oscillator frequency error has been determined, the residual system time offsets can sweep from one extreme to the other of the 128-ms tracking window only for the behavior to repeat at 900-s intervals until the measurements have converged.

Hope this helps you,

Don