On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Ryan Malayter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just heard about these on the Packet Pushers Podcast. Neat little > remote access boxes that can also serve as a GPS or cellular-based > stratum-1 time server. > http://www.opengear.com/ > > It's not quite clear from the spec sheets which modes can actually > serve as stratum-1s, but it is a listed feature. As I already have a > need for a "last-resort" or "out-of-band" access solution, I am > thinking this might be a good way to get a stratum-1 "for free" in all > our datacenters. Little guys run Linux of course. > > Is anybody using one of these Opengear boxes as a stratum-1? If so, > which models, and how does it work? Note that I would likely be > relying on CDMA signals for timekeeping, as roof access is impossible > on the 33rd floor of a 50-floor high rise ;-). Where do you see that the console servers can be set up as a stratum 1 server using their cellular modem as the time source? The spec at http://opengear.com/product-acm5000-g-feature.html talks about using NTP for time synchronization, and looking at the config screen on the ones I have I see where I can configure the thing as an NTP client, but I don't see any option to have it use the cellular modem as the time source. -jav _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
