[LinuxPPS] strange

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> I just restarted ntpd once more and saw:
> 
> Dec  8 20:07:48 epia ntpd[5065]: refclock_nmea: found PPS source
> "/dev/ttyS0" at id #0 on "pps_8250_0"
> Dec  8 20:07:48 epia ntpd[5065]: refclock_nmea: time_pps_kcbind failed:
> Operation not supported
> Dec  8 20:07:48 epia ntpd[5065]: refclock_nmea: time_pps_kcbind failed:
> Operation not supported
> Dec  8 20:07:49 epia ntpd[5065]: frequency initialized -267.138 PPM from
> /var/lib/ntp/drift
> 
> 
> Why twice the line about time_pps_kcbind?

So, to avoid jumping teh time too much, I put the GPS at stratum 8 and
removed 'prefer'. Now I see:

# ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==============================================================================
 127.127.1.0     .LOCL.          10 l    7   64  377    0.000    0.000
 0.001
-127.127.20.0    .GPS.            8 l    3   16  377    0.000  223.093
29.505
+194.109.22.18   193.79.237.14    2 u    5   64  377    7.254  347.331
76.776
*193.67.79.202   .GPS.            1 u  122   64  376   15.049  275.080
60.410
x193.79.237.14   .GPS.            1 u   58   64  367   13.584  375.576
132.150
+82.94.107.211   126.239.159.5    2 u   10   64  377   19.002  296.580
65.472
x82.92.228.68    192.53.103.108   2 u   57   64  377   13.866  352.847
90.982
+82.93.103.174   .GPS.            1 u   43   64  377   14.950  256.427
72.469


How come?