clockdiff − measure clock difference between hosts
clockdiff [-o] [-o1] destination
clockdiff Measures clock difference between us and destination with 1 msec resolution using ICMP TIMESTAMP [2] packets or, optionally, IP TIMESTAMP option [3] option added to ICMP ECHO. [1]
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Use IP TIMESTAMP with ICMP ECHO instead of ICMP TIMESTAMP messages. It is useful with some destinations, which do not support ICMP TIMESTAMP (f.e. Solaris <2.4). | ||
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Slightly different form of -o, namely it uses three-term IP TIMESTAMP with prespecified hop addresses instead of four term one. What flavor works better depends on target host. Particularly, -o is better for Linux. |
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Some nodes (Cisco) use non-standard timestamps, which is allowed by RFC, but makes timestamps mostly useless. | ||
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Some nodes generate messed timestamps (Solaris>2.4), when run xntpd. Seems, its IP stack uses a corrupted clock source, which is synchronized to time-of-day clock periodically and jumps randomly making timestamps mostly useless. Good news is that you can use NTP in this case, which is even better. | ||
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clockdiff shows difference in time modulo 24 days. |
ping(8), arping(8), tracepath(8).
[1] ICMP ECHO, RFC0792, page 14.
[2] ICMP TIMESTAMP, RFC0792, page 16.
[3] IP TIMESTAMP option, RFC0791, 3.1, page 16.
clockdiff was compiled by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. It was based on code borrowed from BSD timed daemon. It is now maintained by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@skbuff.net>.
clockdiff requires CAP_NET_RAW capability to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.
clockdiff is part of iputils package and the latest versions are available in source form at http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-current.tar.bz2.