[chrony-users] Chrony on Asus router - no reduction of offset

[Torsten Wolf <torsten.wolf@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am running chrony 4.3 on an Asus RT-AX86U Pro router which acts as 
server for my local network. No matter if I use

a) remote ntp servers
b) a network client Raspberry Pi with GPS module as sole server
c) that Raspberry synchronised to the same publich servers as in a) as 
sole server

the offset is always in the order of -160ms. I also tried makestep but 
it quickly wanders off to the usual offset. Shouldn't the offset be 
corrected towards zero? At least that is what's happening on the raspi 
for b) and c). Here is the config and some data. I played a bit with 
maxupdateskew and tried to poll the raspi more frequently for b) and c) 
but that did not reduce the offset. I also don't seem to have a loop as 
in my previous problem report...

chrony.conf (for scenario c))

# raspi
server 192.168.1.105 iburst

server zeit.fu-berlin.de iburst noselect
server ptbtime1.ptb.de iburst noselect
server ptbtime2.ptb.de iburst noselect
server ptbtime3.ptb.de iburst noselect
server times.tubit.tu-berlin.de iburst noselect
maxupdateskew 15
driftfile /opt/var/lib/chrony/drift
dumponexit
dumpdir /opt/var/lib/chrony
pidfile /opt/var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid
makestep 1.0 3
rtcsync
logdir /tmp/mnt/TRANSFER/Transfer/chrony
log measurements statistics tracking
allow 192.168.0.0/16
# prevent raspi from polling
deny 192.168.1.104
deny 192.168.1.105
broadcast 60 192.168.1.255
local stratum 1
logchange 0.5


chronyc sources
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^* 192.168.1.105                 2   6   377    33   -226ms[ -409ms] +/- 
8215us
^? zeit.fu-berlin.de             1   6   377    52   -228ms[ -410ms] 
+/-   56ms
^? ptbtime1.ptb.de               1   6   377     7   -227ms[ -227ms] +/- 
7441us
^? ptbtime2.ptb.de               1   6   377    17   -229ms[ -229ms] +/- 
9255us
^? ptbtime3.ptb.de               1   6   377     4   -227ms[ -227ms] +/- 
7839us
^? ns.tu-berlin.de               2   6   377     4   -227ms[ -227ms] +/- 
8129us

chronyc tracking
Reference ID    : C0A80169 (192.168.1.105)
Stratum         : 3
Ref time (UTC)  : Sat Jun 10 18:02:37 2023
System time     : 0.135086194 seconds slow of NTP time
Last offset     : -0.174640983 seconds
RMS offset      : 0.178150147 seconds
Frequency       : 13.519 ppm slow
Residual freq   : -2691.479 ppm
Skew            : 1.982 ppm
Root delay      : 0.015255394 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.100952275 seconds
Update interval : 64.3 seconds
Leap status     : Normal

chronyc sourcestats
Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset 
Std Dev
==============================================================================
192.168.1.105              44  19   46m  -2691.479    161.086    -91ms 242ms
zeit.fu-berlin.de          48  21   50m  -2636.146    123.263    +17ms 218ms
ptbtime1.ptb.de            57  25   60m  -2632.208    101.466    +45ms 232ms
ptbtime2.ptb.de            54  23   57m  -2651.780    111.097    -18ms 234ms
ptbtime3.ptb.de            55  24   58m  -2601.458    110.065   +114ms 233ms
ns.tu-berlin.de            49  21   51m  -2600.763    126.308    +79ms 245ms

chronyc ntpdata
Remote address  : 192.168.1.105 (C0A80169)
Remote port     : 123
Local address   : 192.168.1.1 (C0A80101)
Leap status     : Normal
Version         : 4
Mode            : Server
Stratum         : 2
Poll interval   : 6 (64 seconds)
Precision       : -25 (0.000000030 seconds)
Root delay      : 0.014679 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.000671 seconds
Reference ID    : C035676C ()
Reference time  : Sat Jun 10 17:58:36 2023
Offset          : +0.226437911 seconds
Peer delay      : 0.000576439 seconds
Peer dispersion : 0.000000198 seconds
Response time   : 0.000195511 seconds
Jitter asymmetry: +0.00
NTP tests       : 111 111 1111
Interleaved     : No
Authenticated   : No
TX timestamping : Daemon
RX timestamping : Kernel
Total TX        : 2707
Total RX        : 2706
Total valid RX  : 2706
Total good RX   : 2705
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