Mark, What are these "Campus Systems" currently running for their OS and time synchronization, and how many machines are we talking about?
If we are talking about single or double digit *nix machines, then of course you would want to go with NTP for their time sync. But if you are talking about thousands of Windows machines, then it might be easier just to use the built-in windows time sync but have it point to your local source and sync more often than the default settings. It all boils down to how accurate you want the time to be vs how much work you want to do. As others have pointed out, if you want to do the proper NTP hierarchy & failover, it would be good practice to have a couple servers act as stratum-2 machines and sync via internet to some other stratum-1 sources, then use the combination of those 4 machines for your NTP clients. Also when using NTP to set the prefer flag to your GPS source as that would probably be the most accurate time and prevent NTP from hopping around sources or choosing the wrong one. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
