On 2007-02-09, Richard B. gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote:
> [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 33 lines snipped |=---] Please trim the material you are quoting. > If it's a "warm" start; e.g. you have a valid drift file, the server > should be usable in five to ten minutes If you are using iburst ntpd will chose a syspeer in ~20 seconds and, at that moment will no longer be at stratum 16. That's all you need to start serving time. But, keep in mind that the OP has clearly stated that the "servers" only have the Undisciplined Local Clock. And, as we all know, 'iburst' has no effect on ref-clocks. > An uninterruptable power supply is a very good investment here; > it minimizes the the reboots because the power company "burped"! The OP has clearly stated that (1) there are thousands of isolated networks and (2) that a GPS is out of the question. If a GPS is cost prohibitive, so to too would be a UPS. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
