Re: [ntp:questions] Why can't clocks do inital synchronization?

2009-01-14 Thread Brian Utterback
Well, no promises, but I am shooting for one of the next two releases of OpenSolaris. A backport to Solaris 10 is a possibility, but not highly probable. As for the version of NTP, I am constantly working with the latest development release. At some I'll have to freeze that of course. For polit

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-14 Thread Unruh
"David J Taylor" writes: >Unruh wrote: >[] >> OK, interesting if true. YOu are saying that if you cut the lighter >> adapter >> off, you should supply 4.5-5.5V But the unit claims to be serial port >> device which has a nominal 12V output. I would expect that the power >> supply would then >> be

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-14 Thread Terje Mathisen
Unruh wrote: > Steve Kostecke writes: >> You're assuming that all computers / SBCs / Embedded Systems have a USB >> port. > > Agreed, it you do not have a usb port, you cannot get power from it. > Then you have to get power from elsewhere. Getting it from the serial port > is almost certainly no

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-14 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > OK, interesting if true. YOu are saying that if you cut the lighter > adapter > off, you should supply 4.5-5.5V But the unit claims to be serial port > device which has a nominal 12V output. I would expect that the power > supply would then > be at least that. Why not check the m

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-14 Thread Unruh
Brian Inglis writes: >On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:17:37 GMT in comp.protocols.time.ntp, Unruh > wrote: >>Unruh writes: >>No boards needed for usb or PC ( except for a 12V supply for the latter. >>You could use a portable computer "brick" charger or even a cell phone >>charger (if >>you can find on

Re: [ntp:questions] New version of the Meinberg NTP Installer for Windows

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Danny Mayer wrote: > Chris wrote: >> On Jan 12, 3:22 am, Martin Burnicki >> wrote: >>> Chris, >>> >>> Chris wrote: Out of curiosity, how much time was spent porting ntpd to compile in win32? Since it appears the project is closed source, I'm interested in porting it myself. >>> Just

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Danny Mayer wrote: > Martin Burnicki wrote: >> as already mentioned I hust wanted to save you some work since you've >> still got so many other things on your todo list ... >> >> Martin > > If you want to do this part, sure, go ahead. The other part I will do, > which is to enumerate the IPv4 and

Re: [ntp:questions] New version of the Meinberg NTP Installer for Windows

2009-01-14 Thread Danny Mayer
Chris wrote: > On Jan 12, 3:22 am, Martin Burnicki > wrote: >> Chris, >> >> Chris wrote: >>> Out of curiosity, how much time was spent porting ntpd to compile in >>> win32? Since it appears the project is closed source, I'm interested >>> in porting it myself. >> Just for completeness, we at Meinb

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-14 Thread Danny Mayer
Martin Burnicki wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: > >> Martin Burnicki wrote: >>> Danny, >>> >>> I think I still have the dynamic DLL function import code lying around. >>> Should I try to add it to the current ntp-dev so you just had to care >>> about calling the functions and evaluating the results to

Re: [ntp:questions] leap_add_sec still being advertised ?

2009-01-14 Thread Ronan Flood
"Q" <@..> wrote: > I would of thought that a S1 server with an S0 GPS device would of been > 'quite' by now. We shall see what happens come the end of the month. If it only had the refclock configured it probably would be. The problem comes from peer servers which pass the leap bits around

Re: [ntp:questions] Close stats files

2009-01-14 Thread alkope...@googlemail.com
On Jan 11, 6:52 pm, Unruh wrote: > And alter your script so that it does not try to write any file on today or > earlier. Or test to see if peerstats and peerstats.20090201 are the same > file (same inode with ls -li) > This is a good idea. I have changed my script and it seems to work now: #!/b

Re: [ntp:questions] Close stats files

2009-01-14 Thread alkope...@googlemail.com
On Jan 13, 9:29 pm, David Woolley wrote: > You should be very wary of any frequently written file on flash RAM. Even if you constantly write with maximum speed to the SD card it will take around 2 years until the minimum write cycle count is reached. _

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Dave Hart wrote: > On Jan 13, 5:39 am, Steve Kostecke wrote: >> On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart wrote: >> >> > Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or >> >> The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source >> code. >> >> Steve Kostecke >> NTP Public Servic

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
Danny Mayer wrote: > Martin Burnicki wrote: >> Danny, >> >> I think I still have the dynamic DLL function import code lying around. >> Should I try to add it to the current ntp-dev so you just had to care >> about calling the functions and evaluating the results to see if IPv6 is >> supported? Th

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Burnicki
David Woolley wrote: > Heiko Gerstung wrote: > >> In the NTPv4 draft you will find a (similar) definition: Root dispersion >> indicates the maximum error, that does not necessarily mean that this is >> the current error. > > And maximum error means theoretical worst case, not that this value has