Re: [ntp:questions] Linux NTPd using a older Trimble Thunderbolt GPS Receiver

2015-01-16 Thread Harlan Stenn
Oceanos Admin writes: > Hi: > > We were looking to use an older Trimble Thunderbolt 8 channel GPS > receiver for providing a Stratum 1 time reference. I realize this is > discussed on the ntp.org web site but sadly, the link to Trimble to > get the driver (any any ntp driver) are now all dead link

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux NTPd using a older Trimble Thunderbolt GPS Receiver

2015-01-16 Thread Paul
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Oceanos Admin wrote: > Hi: > > We were looking to use an older Trimble Thunderbolt 8 channel GPS receiver > for providing a Stratum 1 time reference > The standard hobbyist T-Bolt management program is Lady Heather. It a windows (dos) program that will run unde

[ntp:questions] Linux NTPd using a older Trimble Thunderbolt GPS Receiver

2015-01-16 Thread Oceanos Admin
Hi: We were looking to use an older Trimble Thunderbolt 8 channel GPS receiver for providing a Stratum 1 time reference. I realize this is discussed on the ntp.org web site but sadly, the link to Trimble to get the driver (any any ntp driver) are now all dead links. We have it connected to a

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Autokey - who is actively using it?

2015-01-16 Thread Harlan Stenn
Antonio, "Antonio M. Moreiras" writes: > We were using autokey at our public ntp servers(1) since 2011. We are > now in the middle of a process to deactivate it, since 4.2.8 is broken > (we could not make autokey work with 4.2.8 on Linux, it seems to be some > issue related to the version 1.0.x of

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second not handled correctly on Windows 8

2015-01-16 Thread Harlan Stenn
Martin, If a fix is found for this in time I'll get it in 4.2.8p1. H Martin Burnicki writes: > I've just ran a few leap second tests with ntpd 4.2.8 under Windows and > Linux and found that the leap second is not applied correctly under > Windows 8 and 8.1. > > Under windows 7 and on a Linux

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-16 Thread Harlan Stenn
Jochen Bern writes: > ... > > We all know that the current NTP protocol leans toward UTC, and > doesn't address any leap seconds except the one that might be at hand > right now. In recent posts to this list, I've read about plans for an > NTPng that allows for different timescales, but still sug

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Terje Mathisen
Hal Murray wrote: Re. the Fitlet: With a 3.9 to 4.5 W power budget this box will never get into those ranges, but even handling 1K requests/second with sub-ms jitter and delay would still be a very nice Pool server. A Raspberry PI can do 1500 packets per second. OK, that's pretty nice actu

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Rob
Paul wrote: > By the way, you can't send mail to nom...@example.com. I'm sure being > somewhat anonymous enables statements like "Harlan has decided to keep us > in the dark and feed us shit.". That was VERY TRUE on that topic!! He did not tell us what was wrong and he grossly overstated the imp

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Paul
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Charles Elliott wrote: > "Never tell a person he is wrong ..." > I'm not sure what your point is but that statement is ridiculous. Frequent and immediate correction is the PLL we want here. Wrong answers don't help anyone. By the way, you can't send mail to no

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Paul
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote: > > Anyway it is definitely possible to get into the 100K to 1M > requests/second range. > > As I noted above the real problem isn't in the actual packet processing, > which can be made very efficient indeed for the normal case of client mode

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Autokey - who is actively using it?

2015-01-16 Thread Antonio M. Moreiras
We were using autokey at our public ntp servers(1) since 2011. We are now in the middle of a process to deactivate it, since 4.2.8 is broken (we could not make autokey work with 4.2.8 on Linux, it seems to be some issue related to the version 1.0.x of openssl). Probably we will let it deactivated.

[ntp:questions] Leap second not handled correctly on Windows 8

2015-01-16 Thread Martin Burnicki
I've just ran a few leap second tests with ntpd 4.2.8 under Windows and Linux and found that the leap second is not applied correctly under Windows 8 and 8.1. Under windows 7 and on a Linux system this worked correctly. I've opened a bug to track this: https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2732

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Charles Elliott
"Never tell a person he is wrong ..." Carnegie, Dale (1981). How to Win Friends & Influence People. New York, Pocket Books (Simon & Shuster). Note the word influence in the book title. If one want to make this a better world, then one wants influence, not a reputation for being impossibl

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-16 Thread Jochen Bern
On 01/16/2015 05:41 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > I think one problem with OS clocks in TAI is that counting it correctly > requires active/on-going maintenance at unknownable intervals for all > systems that use any form of timestamps (including for example anything > that uses network file systems).

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Hal Murray
> Re. the Fitlet: With a 3.9 to 4.5 W power budget this box will never get > into those ranges, but even handling 1K requests/second with sub-ms jitter > and delay would still be a very nice Pool server. A Raspberry PI can do 1500 packets per second. That's a simple measurement with one reques

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-16 Thread William Unruh
On 2015-01-16, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Phil W Lee said: >>For the tiny number of programs which really need UTC (not TAI), it >>would just be a different number, but the only thing I know of which >>really needs UTC rather than TAI would be programs to assist with >>astronomy or a

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Autokey - who is actively using it?

2015-01-16 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: Hi, On 01/15/2015 03:06 AM, Harlan Stenn wrote: I'm trying to figure out if anybody is actively using autokey, in a production deployment. If you are, please let me know - I have some questions for you. We use it to pull leap-second info off the NTP servers. It took

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-16 Thread Martin Burnicki
Terje Mathisen wrote: OK, so exactly as encoded in the "right" zone info, there is no leap second until the table is updated/patched. And yet there is no expiration date in the TZDB's leap second file (which is also used for the "right" time zones), so you don't know if there is no upcoming l

Re: [ntp:questions] Nice fanless high-perf NTP server: Fitlet!

2015-01-16 Thread Rob
Paul wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Terje Mathisen > wrote: > >> Not in my msg, but in the subject of the entire thread. :-) > > > I'm so used to nomail@example being wrong I had a knee-jerk reaction. My > bad. You just can't stand being pointed at errors. When I point at an error,