Rick Jones wrote:
Terje Mathisen<"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> wrote:
The easiest as well as cheapest might be to take the default FreeBSD
+ Garmin GPS18 route: Total cost about $100 plus a few hours to
build/configure it.
The FreeBSD box don't need any open ports at all except 123 (the NTP
port), and you don't need any services either, so it can easily be
locked down.
(You can consider making an exception for ssh if you must have remote
management...)
Easiest... while it is certainly possible that procurement rules have
changed since I was a summer intern at NRL '84-87 I suspect that
"build your own" may not actually be easiest in the context of
U.S. Government procurement and certification procedures :)
I did realize that, then considered the fact that the FreeBSD version is
pretty much the canonical ntpd target:
Running everything directly on the protocol's recommended platform, and
with source code for everything, would make it very easy to document
that the server is on spec.
OTOH, I have crashed head-on into some bureaucracies in my time, and it
hasn't always been possible to make them see the light. :-(
Terje
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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
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