Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Rick Jones
Jason Rabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for OpenWRT! I installed it on a Dell Truemoble 2300 router I got > off eBay for ~$10. The hardware is more or less identical to the > Linksys WRT54G, just much cheaper to buy secondhand. Ah, but can you wire a PPS (?) GPS to it?-) rick jones -- firebu

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Jason Rabel
>When I care about things like that and do not like the stock firmware, I get >a unit that will accept the openwrt.org firmware. +1 for OpenWRT! I installed it on a Dell Truemoble 2300 router I got off eBay for ~$10. The hardware is more or less identical to the Linksys WRT54G, just much cheaper t

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Ryan Malayter wrote: > On Nov 28, 11:34 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>They don't >>need to know the time! > > > Many routers absolutely DO need accurate time, for security logging > purposes. Since almost every "router" of any type (consumer or > professional) offer

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Rob, Rob Kimberley wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for an ADSL Wireless Router that I can > manually set the NTP Server address on? My Belkin unit comes > pre-configured with external server addresses. I want to use my own one > here (Meinberg LanTime), as doing some tests on NTP jitt

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Burnicki
Aggie, Aggie wrote: > Harlan, > > I have been usign the -g option everytime i run ntpd. This is only to allow a large initial time offset to be accepted by ntpd. Normally ntpd stops itself if the time offset exceeds ~1000 seconds, and adds a warning to the syslog saying you should first set the

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Nov 28, 11:34 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They don't > need to know the time! Many routers absolutely DO need accurate time, for security logging purposes. Since almost every "router" of any type (consumer or professional) offers firewall functionality, accurate tiem

Re: [ntp:questions] Best practices for leaf nodes

2007-11-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling, > > rfc4330. Thank you. I had read RFC 2030 (top Google hit for "SNTP RFC"), and did not realize it had been superseded. RFC 4330 does indeed contain the information I was looking for. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Hal Murray
>Why do you feel that your router needs to know the time? Log files for security incidents. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listin

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-29 Thread Hal Murray
>I don't think it's a hardware product defect. Because we have two of >them, and we had run the same test on both of the board, we still got >the same error. Thanks, There are two kinds of hardware (or software) errors. One is a design error. The problem happens all the time on all units. The

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-29 Thread Hal Murray
>Routers generally do not do NTP in any way, shape, or form! They don't >need to know the time! That's misleading. Routers often include anti-spam/abuse mechanisims which get logged. It helps if the time stamps on the log files are correct. It's easier to get that if the router itself uses NT