Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Evandro Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't the USB protocol have an isochronous mode that guarantees real- > time, predictable communication? In theory, but once you throw a hub into the mix, it gets hairy. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The moral is: don't buy a computer without a serial port :) > Well, I have a serial port, but it is the serial console. Not many PC > type systems (including servers) co

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
serial port. The moral is: don't buy a computer without a serial port :) > This way I also don't need another power source. You can also draw power from a USB port without actually connecting a USB device or transferring any data over it. DES -- Dag-Erli

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS and NTP Server

2008-02-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
x27;t the PPS signal usually connected to one of the flow control pins? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you set up a test locally, include the > > restrict default limited kod > > line in the configuration file. Yes, that's what I did, and it works beautifully. Thanks! DES -- Da

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
t begs the question, which was what "monitor" semantics are and how the parameter should be specified (0-1, percentage, whatever) Also, it wouldn't hurt to copy-paste what you wrote above into the doc on udel.edu :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
f "monitor" is e.g. 10%, it will only send out KoD for 10% of offending requests, is that correct? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These configurable features are in the current snapshot, so that can > > do the same things. > I'll set one up locally (inside the firewall) and see if I

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
rhaps rackety doesn't mind as long each request comes from a different port? > These configurable features are in the current snapshot, so that can > do the same things. I'll set one up locally (inside the firewall) and see if I have better luck with it than with rackety. Than

[ntp:questions] SNTP test bench

2008-01-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Does anyone know of a server or piece of software I can use to test an SNTP implementation - including its handling of KOD packets? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] thttpd and auto-redirect

2008-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
support wildcards. Or stick Varnish in front of thttpd; Varnish supports regular expressions and can rewrite the request before hitting the backend. (ideally, Varnish should be able to synthesize and return a redirect without hitting the backend at all, but we're not there yet) DES --

Re: [ntp:questions] 2008 resolution

2008-01-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I suspect the author is mentally ill. A layman's diagnosis of > > > "bipolar disorder&

Re: [ntp:questions] 2008 resolution

2008-01-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
weren't all too aware of the futility of anyone, layman or professional, diagnosing someone he has never met. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] The NTP dictionary

2007-12-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > provenentic. Formally, this is the relation formed from the transitive > closure of the authentic relation. This comes from Autokey slang. You just made this one up, didn't you? :) DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: [ntp:questions] Time offset / Jitter under FreeBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e. gstat(8) - but this is getting very off-topic... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Time offset / Jitter under FreeBSD

2007-12-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
sub > millisecond - http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/74.181.17.243/log offset. What does 'sysctl kern.timecounter' say? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

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

[ntp:questions] Best practices for leaf nodes

2007-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
full NTP protocol and algorithm - I just want to keep the local clock correct to within a second or so using as little code as possible. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https