[ntp:questions] New Meinberg Installer for NTP 4.2.6p5

2012-09-14 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Everyone! It took a while, but I just published the Meinberg Installer for 4.2.6p5 which has been requested by a lot of people for a while. Sorry that this has been delayed for so long! I kindly ask everyone interested to check out our news release article:

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg software running under Vista/Windows 2008

2011-07-07 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Radu, thank you for using NTP and our installer! Please see below for a post that ended up being longer than intented! Sorry for this :-) ... Am 06.07.2011 13:32, schrieb radu.p...@technomatic.de: Hello, I have an issue with the Meinberg software: I have defined a simple configuration

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntp not syncing after powerfail of server

2011-05-19 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi, Am 18.05.2011 11:57, schrieb M. Giertzsch: Hello together, I want to synchronise a local network and there is no uplink to the outside world. So I have one dedicated ntp server and all other devices are client of this server. Now if there is a powerfail, there is no guarantee that

Re: [ntp:questions] Peridoc anomalies in loopstats file ...

2011-01-21 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Sorry for the delay, a lot of tests going on in the meantime... Am 12.01.2011 18:54, schrieb unruh: On 2011-01-12, Heiko Gerstung heiko.removethistext.gerst...@meinberg.de wrote: Just an addition: The peerstats file shows the nearly the same time jumps at exactly the same time. I am still

[ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 Plugfest in Germany

2011-01-14 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi, I hope people do not mind if I shamelessly take advantage of the fact that a large number of time sync related people are reading this newsgroup. I just wanted to announce that there will be a IEEE 1588/PTP (Precision Time Protocol) plugfest held in Lemgo, Germany at the end of March.

Re: [ntp:questions] Peridoc anomalies in loopstats file ...

2011-01-12 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Just an addition: The peerstats file shows the nearly the same time jumps at exactly the same time. I am still wondering if this is NTP or the Kernel ... Best Regards, Heiko Am 10.01.2011 11:15, schrieb Heiko Gerstung: Hi Everybody! Did anybody ever see this kind of anomaly: I see

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpsnmpd

2011-01-10 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Am 04.01.2011 11:26, schrieb Q: All, Do any of you folks have any details on ntpsnmpd. Google is not much use on this one and there are very few links to anything of any use. http://www.ponge.com/telechargements/manpages-orig/1/ntpsnmpd.1.html#lbAD is the only url that tells me

[ntp:questions] Peridoc anomalies in loopstats file ...

2011-01-10 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Everybody! Did anybody ever see this kind of anomaly: I see a periodic jump of time on my Geode LX800 based embedded CPU board running Linux. This looks like an overflow or something, but the time jumps recorded in loopstats are up to -400 microseconds and appear to be happening exactly every

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux : ntp-dev-4.2.7p84 : Local clock not getting synced.

2011-01-03 Thread Heiko Gerstung
refclock drivers in the code or create a new legacy NTP refclock driver daemon that runs as its own process and translates between the SHM interface of the new ntpd and the refclock. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Heiko H -- Heiko Gerstung *MEINBERG Funkuhren* GmbH Co. KG Lange Wand 9 D-31812

Re: [ntp:questions] ntptime didn´t show ppssignal

2010-08-30 Thread Heiko Gerstung
- Von: questions-bounces+frank.burkhardt=fokus.fraunhofer...@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions- bounces+frank.burkhardt=fokus.fraunhofer...@lists.ntp.org] Im Auftrag von Heiko Gerstung Gesendet: Freitag, 27. August 2010 14:12 An: questions@lists.ntp.org Betreff: Re: [ntp:questions] ntptime didn´t

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not working after server crash

2010-08-30 Thread Heiko Gerstung
server 192.168.15.1 offset -0.054304 sec Cheers, Andrew On 24/08/2010 6:13 PM, Heiko Gerstung wrote: Am 17.08.2010 12:17, schrieb Andrew Kilham: Hi, I have a server running VMWare Server, which contains a number of virtual machines. The host VM and guest VM's are all running

Re: [ntp:questions] ntptime didn´t show ppssignal

2010-08-27 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Frank, Am 23.08.2010 14:30, schrieb Burkhardt, Frank: Dear Listmembers, first of all sorry for my bad english, but I'm not a native speaker and not trained so well ;-) I tried to get ntpd working with a pps signal (atom driver) under Ubuntu 10.04 since one week without success. I'm

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not working after server crash

2010-08-24 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Am 17.08.2010 12:17, schrieb Andrew Kilham: Hi, I have a server running VMWare Server, which contains a number of virtual machines. The host VM and guest VM's are all running CentOS 5 64bit. I installed NTP about a year ago and got it working on all of the virtual machines on this

[ntp:questions] New Version of NTP Installer for Windows from Meinberg

2009-05-22 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Clock Addictives, following the security update of NTP we built a new version of our NTP Installer for Windows which now installs NTP 4.2.4p7 (ntpd and tools) as well as the full NTP Documentation. The installer now also includes the current version of the OpenSSL library (0.9.8k). All

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntp looses sync

2009-04-02 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Towli schrieb: Hello all We're testing a DCF77 appliance box (EMC professional from www.gude.info), which every now and the looses its connection to the DCF77 signal and switches over to quartz mode. Upon doing this, our test switch looses its sync to it, and considers it a stratum 11

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread Heiko Gerstung
David J Taylor schrieb: Folks, I'm looking for suggestions here. For the last day, I've been trying on and off to help someone get the Meinberg installation of NTP working. It appears to install correctly, and the service starts, but ntpq -p shows all remote servers in INIT with a

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-01 Thread Heiko Gerstung
David J Taylor schrieb: Heiko Gerstung wrote: [] It could be helpful to see the output of ntpq -p and ntpq -c rv id where id is the association ID of one of the remote servers. This id can be found out using ntpq -c as .. and yes, the event log would be helpful as well. Best Regards

[ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2....@vegas-v2)

2009-01-13 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi there! We spotted a network problem with the NTPD binary that has been included in our Vegas installer and therefore released vegas-v2 which can be downloaded on our website. Most likely users with wifi, dialup or other slow (i.e. with delayed initialization) connection types are affected

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

2009-01-12 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Folkert van Heusden schrieb: It seems the Dutch NMi organisation (which is the time reference for the Netherlands) has an NTP-service as well. Now I tried retrieving the time with ntpdate (just to see if it was reachable) but ntpdate refuses it. Using the regular ntp daemon works fine. Could

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

2009-01-08 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Wizards of Time, following the security update of NTP we built a new version of our NTP Installer for Windows which now installs NTP 4.2.4p6 (ntpd and tools) as well as the full NTP Documentation. The installer now also includes the current version of the OpenSSL library (0.9.8j). All

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

2009-01-05 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Juergen Perlinger schrieb: Hi everybody, One of the things that can be annoying is that NTPD cannot do an initial synchronization from (most) reference clocks over a difference of more than 4 hours. The reason is that 'refclock_process()' calls 'clocktime()' which in turn will only

Re: [ntp:questions] network is unreachable.

2008-11-21 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Varrun Ashok schrieb: [...] after the kernel i created booted i get the following message: 1) NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo:disabled privacy extensions libisc/ifiter_ioctl.c 567 REQUIRE (iter-pos(unsigned int) iter-ifc.ifc_len)failed 2)then after logging as root i typr ntpd

Re: [ntp:questions] Using parse driver rather then nmea driver?

2008-10-22 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Another Sillyname schrieb: [...] It's a shame no-one makes a GPS device that allows multiple sources at the same time (I suppose an old garmin GPS III plus unit with multiple external antennas I have might do itif I could power it from the mains). Well, we (Meinberg) have redundant GPS

[ntp:questions] New Version of the NTP Installer for Windows (4.2.4p5)

2008-09-01 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi everybody! The NTP Public Services Project recently announced the release of ntp-4.2.4p5 and after two weeks of testing I am happy to be able to announce an updated Windows Installer version (nicknamed beijing due to the 2008 Olympic Games) including this version and a few minor

Re: [ntp:questions] No libntp.so

2008-08-28 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Kay, I am working on a libntpq which I developed for a Google Summer of Code project. The main goal of this GSoC project was to build an SNMP sub agent daemon which would be used with any AgentX compliant SNMP agent (like net-snmp.org). The beast called ntpsnmpd will be responsible for the

Re: [ntp:questions] Where is the log file?

2008-06-24 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Alan schrieb: The Windows Event log shows an error, Unable to initialize .rnd file: Log Name: Application Source:NTP Date: 6/17/2008 7:57:31 PM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description:

Re: [ntp:questions] Where is the log file?

2008-06-24 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Alan schrieb: It did not. On Jun 22, 11:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) wrote: Alan wrote: David, Thanks, this and setting the NTP service up to logon to an account as a service did it. Alan The installer was supposed to do that. Did it not do so? Danny That

Re: [ntp:questions] Where is the log file?

2008-06-16 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Alan schrieb: I changed the configuration file and wanted to stop and then restart the NTP client on my PC. When I run the stopntp, restartntp or startntp batch files, I get System Error 5 - Access Denied errors again. Alan Alan, under Vista you need to run the batch

Re: [ntp:questions] Where is the log file?

2008-06-16 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Alan schrieb: Heiko, Thanks. That did it. I`m still getting used to all of Vista`s new twists. Alan Me too. You can edit the properties of the start menu entries for start/stop/restart.bat in order to always run it with Admin rights: right-click, Properties, Shortcut tab,

Re: [ntp:questions] high precision tracking: trying to understand sudden jumps

2008-04-02 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hal Murray schrieb: Yes, PTP can yield an accuracy better than 100 ns if both the NICs at the clients and the server support hardware timestamping of sent/received PTP packets. On the other hand, also *every* network node between the PTP endpoints has to be PTP-aware and compensate the

Re: [ntp:questions] high precision tracking: trying to understand sudden jumps

2008-03-31 Thread Heiko Gerstung
David Woolley schrieb: Bill Unruh wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You appear to be quoting an off list reply with no indication of permission, although it is just possible that the email gateway forwarded it to email subscribers without forwarding it to the usenet

Re: [ntp:questions] Cheking if clients are update ?!

2008-01-22 Thread Heiko Gerstung
RICCARDO schrieb: I'd like checking from my ntpd daemon (time server) if clients synchronize themselves to this one. Which tools or command can I use ? Hi Riccardo, you could use ntpdate -qu ip.of.client.pc to query the ntpd running on the client and check if the offset and stratum level

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Server Setup

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Prekop, Joe Jr. schrieb: I need to configure a Windows 2003 Server as an NTP server. All of our internal users, servers and network infrastructure equipment will point to this NTP server for updates. What is the best way to setup a Windows 2003 server as an NTP server? You could use our NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] SNMP support

2007-12-14 Thread Heiko Gerstung
David L. Mills schrieb: Heiko, We should reveal that at least some GPS/NTP appliances already do implement some form of MIB. I mentioned that in another post. Since there is no standard NTP MIB, all those MIBs (including those in our own NTP time server products) are enterprise MIBs and

[ntp:questions] New Windows Installer available (4.2.4p4)

2007-12-05 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi there! I just released a new version of the NTP Installer for Windows, which is including the current stable ntp version 4.2.4p4 and OpenSSL 0.9.8e . As usual it fixes a number of old bugs in the installer code (... and introduces new ones) and is nicknamed modena in memory of Mr.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Third party client on Windows OS ?

2007-09-19 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Evandro Menezes schrieb: Martin, First off, I appreciate your interest. On Sep 18, 3:53 am, Martin Burnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested in how you found that out, what version of w32time and NTP you were comparing, and what the differences are. I run Windows XP with

Re: [ntp:questions] Getting clock from OSA SASE 5548B

2007-09-12 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Miroslaw, the problem with E1 is that it can only provide a frequency/clock and not the current time of day and date. Even if you would have the chance to divide the 2,048 MHz into a 1PPS, it would not be aligned to the edge of the UTC second and comes up with a new arbitrary offset of

[ntp:questions] NTP Pool Server GPS Giveaway

2007-09-06 Thread Heiko Gerstung
WARNINGI am sorry for this marketing buzz but since I know quite a few of you are interested .../WARNING Dear Worshippers of the Microsecond (shouldn't we start a club or church or something like that?), on the new NTP Pool website you can now apply for one of three Meinberg GPS PCI receivers

Re: [ntp:questions] New features for Windows NTP Installer

2007-08-10 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi invalid (cool name, btw ;-)), thank you for the suggestion. As far as I can see this works fine already. Best Regards, Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Heiko Gerstung wrote: If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Please double check that the user can pick any drive

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting ntp servers with ntpd windows

2007-08-10 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Ryan Malayter schrieb: On Aug 8, 11:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the ntp installer for Windows and have installed to a number of machines here. Just wondering if there is a better way of doing the ntpd server config than manual entries in ntp.conf. For example on our Unix-based

Re: [ntp:questions] New features for Windows NTP Installer

2007-08-10 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi invalid (cool name, btw ;-)), thank you for the suggestion. As far as I can see this works fine already. Best Regards, Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Heiko Gerstung wrote: If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Please double check that the user can pick any drive

[ntp:questions] NTP Installer Upgrade

2007-08-06 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Time Gurus out there! One of my favourite singers and songwriters, Mr. Billy Joel once sung Only the good die young and this applies to our recent version of the NTP Installer for Windows as well. I added a few features and fixed some minor bugs since I released the Foehr version and now

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Installer Upgrade

2007-08-06 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi Vivien, can you please let me know which version of Windows you are running? Are there any entries in the event log besides the error message you already mentioned? Regards, Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I've just intalled this new version...and suddently my ntpd doesn't work

Re: [ntp:questions] New features for Windows NTP Installer

2007-08-02 Thread Heiko Gerstung
David J Taylor schrieb: Heiko Gerstung wrote: Hi! I am currently working on a new version of the installer and would like to hear any feature requests you might have. At the moment I am working on adding Start Menu entries (can be deselected of course but will be enabled per default

[ntp:questions] New features for Windows NTP Installer

2007-07-31 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi! I am currently working on a new version of the installer and would like to hear any feature requests you might have. At the moment I am working on adding Start Menu entries (can be deselected of course but will be enabled per default) for - starting/stopping/restarting the service (using

Re: [ntp:questions] Release Candidate for new Windows Installer(4.2.4p3-RC1)

2007-07-24 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Guy Macon schrieb: I have been testing the following: http://www.meinberg.de/download/ntp/windows/experimental/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.meinberg.de/download/ntp/windows/time-server-monitor/ntp-time-server-monitor-0.9n.exe ...and they appear to work perfectly. Hardware: Copmaq