[lwip-devel] [patch #9581] Add "server reachability" register to SNTP

[Tom Ferrin]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?9581>

                 Summary: Add "server reachability" register to SNTP
                 Project: lwIP - A Lightweight TCP/IP stack
            Submitted by: tferrin
            Submitted on: Wed 07 Mar 2018 11:35:22 PM UTC
                Category: apps
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Currently there is no way for an application to determine if a time server is
reliably reachable. Since NTP is a UDP-based protocol, network congestion or
an overloaded server could easily mean that NTP packets are only occasionally
being received, but the application has no way of knowing this.

The additions in this patch implement a 8-bit “p.reach” server
reachability shift register, as described in section 9.2 of RFC 5905, and the
associated sntp_getreachability() function returns the value of this register
to the application layer. This can then be used by the application to
determine whether the server is reachable and, if not, this fact can be
reported and another server can be chosen.

The algorithm from RFC 5905 is simple and the implementation in this patch
requires very few lines of code. The reachability register is initialized to 0
and then shifted left by one bit when a request packet is sent. If a valid
response packet arrives, the rightmost bit is set to one. If the register
contains any nonzero bits, the server is considered reachable. The number of
one bits versus zero bits can also be used to determine how reliable the
reception of data packets is.



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Date: Wed 07 Mar 2018 11:35:22 PM UTC  Name: sntp.h  Size: 3KiB   By: tferrin

<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=43484>
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Date: Wed 07 Mar 2018 11:35:22 PM UTC  Name: sntp.c  Size: 26KiB   By: tferrin

<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=43485>

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