[ntp:questions] PPS with CentOS

2012-02-08 Thread pc
Hi, Does anybody have experiences -- positive or negative -- using CentOS 2.6.32 with a refclock that generates a PPS signal? TIA, Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

[ntp:questions] NTP rejects refclock

2012-02-08 Thread pc
I'm setting up an NTP stratum-1 server with a Meinberg C51 timecode receiver. The problem is that NTP doesn't seem to be accepting data from the refclock driver. After running overnight, ntpq -c associations says: ind assid status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP rejects refclock

2012-02-08 Thread pc
Martin, Many thanks for your invaluable help/vielen Dank fuer Ihre sehr wertvolle Hilfe! I was unaware of cu, but I was able to use to to verify that /dev/ ttyS0 was in fact showing the correct ASCII strings. From there it was relatively easy to get everything up running. Now there are two

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP rejects refclock

2012-02-08 Thread pc
On Jan 25, 6:04 pm, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote:  - The OS (CentOS, which is a close relative of RedHat) deletes everything in /dev    each time it is booted. Is there some recommended way of setting up the link    /dev/refclock-0 - /dev/ttyS0? Put in a new rule into udev to tell it

Re: [ntp:questions] Oncore looses PPS

2011-12-30 Thread pc
Hallo Miguel, Yes -- if TRAIM is configured in a particular way, the PPS pulse [is] active only when Time RAIM algorithm confirms time solution error is within the user defined alarm limit. Can you poll the current TRAIM setup and status with an @@En command and post the output? Paul

[ntp:questions] Fuzzy messages in NTP log

2011-12-30 Thread pc
I installed NTP v4.2.7p244 on my Sun SPARC + Solaris 9 system a couple of days ago, and now I have a message in the NTP log file that I've never seen before: 30 Dec 05:48:51 xntpd[23840]: ts_min 1325220531.588564214 ts_prev 1325220531.588563380 ts 1325220531.588711963 30 Dec 05:48:51

Re: [ntp:questions] Fuzzy messages in NTP log

2011-12-30 Thread pc
Harlan and Dave, Many thanks for your explanations. On the morning of last Monday, 2011-12-27, I compiled and installed NTP on two Sun/Solaris systems (each with its own GCC compiler: 3.4.6 and 3.4.2 respectively). System 'B' logged the 'fuzz' message at 2011-12-28 18:45:39A and again at

Re: [ntp:questions] Fwd: [ntpwg] RFC 5905 on Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification

2010-06-24 Thread pc
At risk of stirring up a hornets' nest: The RFC unequivocally states that A primary server is synchronized to a reference clock directly traceable to UTC. IMO, that is not a necessary condition. If I have a hierarchy of NTP servers and clients with no external connection to the Internet and I

Re: [ntp:questions] backup PPS source

2010-04-13 Thread pc
Why bother with varicaps and pots when a DS3231 chip will probably do what you want straight out of the box? Or are you thinking that you might have to trim out a constant frequency offset? Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Quick sync between two computers not connected to the internet

2010-03-22 Thread pc
Has anybody noticed the first word in cnoyes2's subject line: Quick ? NTP can take hours to settle, and is better suited to configurations where the computers run 24*7. How quickly do you need to achieve sync? How often are the PCs switched off and cold-started? Paul

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP servers redundancy

2010-01-19 Thread pc
Jean, It's already been said (and others may say it again) that an NTP configuration with two servers is generally considered bad. That's true in the sense that a two-server setup won't give you better time than a single-server setup, and may indeed give you slightly worse time; you would have to

Re: [ntp:questions] PC DCF-77 signal emulation?

2009-09-11 Thread pc
FWIW, it's possible that the antenna/receiver modules are manufactured by this company: http://www.hkw-elektronik.de/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] PC DCF-77 signal emulation?

2009-09-09 Thread pc
You could try combining these two Meinberg modules: http://www.meinberg.de/english/products/gps170.htm http://www.meinberg.de/english/products/sim77p.htm Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] PC DCF-77 signal emulation?

2009-09-09 Thread pc
Another possibility would be to use the output from your Linux box as input to a Meinberg GEN77, then feed the output of the GEN77, i.e. the DCF77 code bits, into a SIM77P. Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] PC DCF-77 signal emulation?

2009-09-09 Thread pc
Pete, When you write ...device that can output a DCF-77 signal to a number of clocks do you mean the coded bitstream (aka 'telegram') or the modulated 77.5kHz RF signal? Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

[ntp:questions] GPS-disciplined oscillators

2009-08-26 Thread pc
Many of us use a GPS-disciplined oscillator, namely a computer's system clock, as the basis for NTP operation. So hopefully this paper is not too far off-topic for interested techies: http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/application_notes/AN-1002.pdf

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS-disciplined oscillators

2009-08-26 Thread pc
@Poul-Henning Kamp: Are you following this thread? ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions