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    How often is normal for ntp time sync?

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      ericus
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      I am a newbie to BSD and pfSense.  The installation was smooth.  And in pfTop I notice very frequent activities related to UDP port 123 (ntp time sync related I believe).  It is more like several times a minute.  Is this normal?  I thought the machine only need to time sync once per day…..

      Thanks for the help in advance.

      --Eric

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        drees
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        Yes, frequent activity is normal. You will probably see a couple packets a minute.

        It doesn't just sync up once a day - it runs the ntp daemon which constantly attempts to stay as synchronized as possible to the specified ntp server.

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          ericus
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          Good to know.  Thanks!

          –Eric

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