>Can someone point me to a good document that >shows how to setup a Time Server? I have an >isolated network that cannot get to the Internet >to sync time. I have Solaris 8,9,10 and Red Hat Linux >Advanced Server 4 servers as potential time server >candidates.
I don't know of any document that covers this case. It does come up occasionally. There might be some ideas in the newsgroup archives. I think your top level decision is do you want to setup a refclock or do you want to coast between manual corrections. For under $100 you can rig up a GPS clock. The Garmin GPS 18 LVC is usual suggestion. That will give you good time. I don't know anything about Solaris. Linux needs a serious patch to get PPS support. Without PPS support, your time won't be "good". It will be much better than coasting without any refclocks. If you don't use a refclock, you can set things up to distribute the local system clock. http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver1.html It will drift between (manual) corrections. You can minimize that drift by calibrating your clock drift and putting the right value in the drift file. If your temperature and workload are reasonably stable, I'd expect you can get close to a second per week. A few odds and ends.... The documentation for ntp is web pages, not man pages. There are generally 2 versions of ntp available: stable and dev. (There are also older version floating around too.) The dev version has new features, like the orphan mode. Maybe it has new bugs too. If you find web page via google, you don't know which version it is refering to. If you can, use the documentation that comes with the version of ntp you are running. I'd suggest a pass through all of the web pages. Skim the stuff that doesn't look interesting. Go back and read the important stuff more carefully. Linux 2.6 kernels have a bug in the tsc calibration code. That will confuse things if you try to manually calibrate the drift. (I'll say more if you get that far.) -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
