Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-09-02 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Mischanko, Edward T wrote: > My understanding is that IP addresses in the > 192.168.xxx.xxx range are not routable? RFC1918 Private Networks: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16 Those IPv4 reserved addresses may not be internet routable, however they are internal enterprise intranet routab

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-09-02 Thread Mischanko, Edward T
mischanko=arcelormittal@lists.ntp.org > [mailto:questions- > bounces+edward.mischanko=arcelormittal@lists.ntp.org] On > Behalf Of A C > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:25 PM > To: questions@lists.ntp.org > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining > pool.ntp.org >

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-31, Chris Albertson wrote: > positional accuracy is > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:08 AM, unruh wrote: > >> On 2011-08-31, Uwe Klein wrote: >> > David J Taylor wrote: >> >> How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? >> > >> > Pfft. >> > >> > The defining docum

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Albertson
positional accuracy is On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:08 AM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-31, Uwe Klein wrote: > > David J Taylor wrote: > >> How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? > > > > Pfft. > > > > The defining document is rather old I guess. A lot happened in between

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread Terje Mathisen
unruh wrote: On 2011-08-31, Uwe Klein wrote: David J Taylor wrote: How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? Pfft. The defining document is rather old I guess. A lot happened in between. ( I looked into GPS in my diploma thesis ~1987 and not much after that ) T

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread jimp
unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-31, Uwe Klein wrote: >> David J Taylor wrote: >>> How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? >> >> Pfft. >> >> The defining document is rather old I guess. A lot happened in between. >> ( I looked into GPS in my diploma thesis ~1987 and not muc

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-31, Uwe Klein wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? > > Pfft. > > The defining document is rather old I guess. A lot happened in between. > ( I looked into GPS in my diploma thesis ~1987 and not much after that ) The GPS

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread Uwe Klein
David J Taylor wrote: How does this square with those who claim 4ns from their GPS devices? Pfft. The defining document is rather old I guess. A lot happened in between. ( I looked into GPS in my diploma thesis ~1987 and not much after that ) GPS over time is not a static thing. Space and Gro

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2011-08-31 Thread David J Taylor
It is well below 0dB. ahh, here: http://www.northwoodlabs.com/AN101.pdf around -22dB you get a "win" by correlation with the CA PR pattern (~1000 bits). ( you need better than +6dB S/N afair) uwe Thanks for that pointer, Uwe. That -22dB is for a perfect receiver, as well. The document lea

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-31 Thread Uwe Klein
Greg Hennessy wrote: On 2011-08-28, David J Taylor wrote: Don't forget the sideband energy from these digital transmissions, and the below zero signal-to-noise ratio of GPS. I really doubt the signal to noise ratio of GPS is below zero. Below unity I would believe. It is well below 0dB.

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread David J Taylor
"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message news:j3jrme$u87$1...@dont-email.me... On 2011-08-28, David J Taylor wrote: Don't forget the sideband energy from these digital transmissions, and the below zero signal-to-noise ratio of GPS. I really doubt the signal to noise ratio of GPS is below zero. Belo

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread NPG
On 8/30/2011 2:22 PM, Rob wrote: > > Also make sure that you have no NAT or connection-tracking firewall > between your server and the internet. > > (NAT would actually be acceptable when it is a statically configured > one-to-one address translation, not one that ends up building a session > tab

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-30, Chris Albertson wrote: >> If you care about microseconds or nanoseconds, shortwave radio is a poor >> choice. The length of the radio propagation path changes constantly! Not by >> much but if you care about the nanoseconds. . . . >> >> If you REALLY NEED the nanoseconds, buy an at

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Greg Hennessy
On 2011-08-28, David J Taylor wrote: > Don't forget the sideband > energy from these digital transmissions, and the below zero > signal-to-noise ratio of GPS. I really doubt the signal to noise ratio of GPS is below zero. Below unity I would believe. __

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Albertson
> If you care about microseconds or nanoseconds, shortwave radio is a poor > choice. The length of the radio propagation path changes constantly! Not by > much but if you care about the nanoseconds. . . . > > If you REALLY NEED the nanoseconds, buy an atomic clock and have it > calibrated by your

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread David Woolley
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: The speed of light and/or electrical signals, radio waves, etc. are *approximately* the same! The speed of an electrical signal in copper wire is slightly less than the speed of light in vacuum! It will be different again if the wires are aluminum rather than copp

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 8/30/2011 12:05 AM, NPG wrote: On 8/29/2011 9:59 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: The other source of time is CDMA. This is a signal sent from cell towers. This can be better then WWV/WWVB. There are many CDMA based NTP servers. Some pool servrs are CDMA but I bet you will not find any WW

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 8/29/2011 11:57 PM, NPG wrote: On 8/29/2011 9:47 PM, unruh wrote: On 2011-08-29, NPG wrote: On 8/29/2011 5:03 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM, NPG wrote: Stupid noob question alert. Does GPS provide better accuracy? Depending on which GPS receiver, GPS can

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-30, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> The time stuff I understand, even the radio wave propogation stuff, > >> though obviously not as well as others here. > >> I'm not sure what "cable length", "speed of light delay", or "velocity > >> factor"

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2011-08-30 Thread A C
On 8/30/2011 11:22, Rob wrote: Also make sure that you have no NAT or connection-tracking firewall between your server and the internet. (NAT would actually be acceptable when it is a statically configured one-to-one address translation, not one that ends up building a session table like a con

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-30, NPG wrote: > On 8/30/2011 2:28 AM, David Lord wrote: >> >> GPS or other radio time sources are not an essential requirement >> for pool membership. > > Correct. Agreed. However, gps are cheap, and give great time for you to deliver. You do need to have somewhere to put the anten

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Rob
NPG wrote: > On 8/30/2011 2:28 AM, David Lord wrote: >> >> GPS or other radio time sources are not an essential requirement >> for pool membership. > > Correct. > >> What is essential is a static ip address, >> reliable 24/7 internet connection and good choice or internet >> ntp servers. > > Th

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread NPG
On 8/30/2011 2:28 AM, David Lord wrote: > > GPS or other radio time sources are not an essential requirement > for pool membership. Correct. > What is essential is a static ip address, > reliable 24/7 internet connection and good choice or internet > ntp servers. That we have. :-) I've implem

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread jimp
Rob wrote: > unruh wrote: >> And we keep hearing about the UK jamming GPS for hours at a time in >> regions of the UK. > > Yes, we keep hearing about that from the UK. > But what about other countries, probably they do the same thing but > we don't hear about it because there are no nice bullet

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-30, Chris Albertson wrote: >> The time stuff I understand, even the radio wave propogation stuff, >> though obviously not as well as others here. >> I'm not sure what "cable length", "speed of light delay", or "velocity >> factor" is all about. >> > > What I was getting at was that that

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Rob
unruh wrote: > And we keep hearing about the UK jamming GPS for hours at a time in > regions of the UK. Yes, we keep hearing about that from the UK. But what about other countries, probably they do the same thing but we don't hear about it because there are no nice bulletins posted to usenet abo

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Uwe Klein
Chris Albertson wrote: I'm (very slowly) working on a project at home to compare WWV and GPS. The purpose is to measure the ionosphere. "Lag" in the WWV signal can tell you about radio propagation. Same for the DCF77 timesource in Europe. OT: recently read an article about using GPS receive

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Albertson
> The time stuff I understand, even the radio wave propogation stuff, > though obviously not as well as others here. > I'm not sure what "cable length", "speed of light delay", or "velocity > factor" is all about. > What I was getting at was that that better GPS receivers are so accurate with thei

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread David J Taylor
"unruh" wrote in message news:slrnj5ogfa.m9l.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] And we keep hearing about the UK jamming GPS for hours at a time in regions of the UK. .. in military area, military tests just like any nation will carry out. Likely /your/ nation included! I have yet to see

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread David Lord
NPG wrote: On 8/29/2011 9:59 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: The other source of time is CDMA. This is a signal sent from cell towers. This can be better then WWV/WWVB. There are many CDMA based NTP servers. Some pool servrs are CDMA but I bet you will not find any WWV based servers OK, I'm

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-30 Thread David Woolley
NPG wrote: I'm not sure what "cable length", "speed of light delay", or "velocity factor" is all about. It's a basic tenet of modern physics that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. That applies not just in free space, like radio waves, but also in cables. In practice

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/29/2011 9:47 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-29, NPG wrote: >> On 8/29/2011 5:03 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM, NPG wrote: Stupid noob question alert. Does GPS provide better accuracy? >>> Depending on which GPS receiver, GPS can be MANY or

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/29/2011 9:59 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > The other source of time is CDMA. This is a signal sent from cell towers. > This can be better then WWV/WWVB. There are many CDMA based NTP > servers. Some pool servrs are CDMA but I bet you will not find any WWV > based servers OK, I'm lea

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-30, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > Chris Albertson wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, wrote: >> >>> Harlan Stenn wrote: >>> > GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are >>> > several *potential* pitfalls: >>> > >>> > - It is *possible* for the U

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-29, NPG wrote: > On 8/29/2011 5:03 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM, NPG wrote: >>> Stupid noob question alert. >>> Does GPS provide better accuracy? >>> >>> >> Depending on which GPS receiver, GPS can be MANY orders of magnitude better. >> The best GPSe

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, John Hasler wrote: > NPG writes: > > A Meinberg with GPS & WVV would be cool. > > WWVB would give you substantially better accuracy than WWV (though not > nearly as good as GPS). One big problem with WWVB is that you can't receive it most of the day. Much easie

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/29/2011 7:10 PM, John Hasler wrote: > NPG writes: >> A Meinberg with GPS & WVV would be cool. > > WWVB would give you substantially better accuracy than WWV (though not > nearly as good as GPS). Typo, I meant WWVB. :-) -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http:/

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread jimp
Chris Albertson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, wrote: > >> Harlan Stenn wrote: >> > GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are >> > several *potential* pitfalls: >> > >> > - It is *possible* for the US Gov't to detune the GPS system (locally or >> > in-gene

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2011-08-29 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
On 8/29/2011 2:38 PM, unruh wrote: > Meinberg also makes GPS receivers which are probably very > reliable and robost-- probably more so than the Sure device. > On the other hand you can buy something like 20 or more Sure > units for one Meinberg. Then, there is the commercial packaging issue,

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread John Hasler
NPG writes: > A Meinberg with GPS & WVV would be cool. WWVB would give you substantially better accuracy than WWV (though not nearly as good as GPS). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA ___ questions mailing list quest

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, wrote: > Harlan Stenn wrote: > > GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are > > several *potential* pitfalls: > > > > - It is *possible* for the US Gov't to detune the GPS system (locally or > > in-general). Since GPS is now increasing

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/29/2011 5:38 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-29, NPG wrote: >> On 8/27/2011 1:16 PM, unruh wrote: >>> On 2011-08-27, NPG wrote: > > First ask what your requirements are and then you can buy the equipment > to meet those. You do not want to find yourself in the position of the > car buyer who

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/29/2011 5:03 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM, NPG wrote: >> Stupid noob question alert. >> Does GPS provide better accuracy? >> >> > Depending on which GPS receiver, GPS can be MANY orders of magnitude better. > The best GPSes have a one sigma error on the puls

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-29, Harlan Stenn wrote: > GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are > several *potential* pitfalls: > > - It is *possible* for the US Gov't to detune the GPS system (locally or > in-general). Since GPS is now increasingly used for "human safety" > things,

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-29, NPG wrote: > On 8/27/2011 1:16 PM, unruh wrote: >> On 2011-08-27, NPG wrote: >>> Long range plans. >>> Does anyone know the current price of a meinberg M300 with WWVB receiver. >>> I've asked them for a quote, but haven't heard back yet. >>> My guess ~ $1,000 - $2,000. >> >> Why w

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread jimp
Harlan Stenn wrote: > GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are > several *potential* pitfalls: > > - It is *possible* for the US Gov't to detune the GPS system (locally or > in-general). Since GPS is now increasingly used for "human safety" > things, the costs/risks

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:43 PM, NPG wrote: > > > Get a Sure gps receiver for $50 do a bit > > of wiring, and get far greater accuracy than from WWV > > Stupid noob question alert. > Does GPS provide better accuracy? > > Depending on which GPS receiver, GPS can be MANY orders of magnitude better

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread Harlan Stenn
GPS can be done very affordably and can offer great time. There are several *potential* pitfalls: - It is *possible* for the US Gov't to detune the GPS system (locally or in-general). Since GPS is now increasingly used for "human safety" things, the costs/risks for doing this have gone up si

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/27/2011 1:16 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-27, NPG wrote: >> Long range plans. >> Does anyone know the current price of a meinberg M300 with WWVB receiver. >> I've asked them for a quote, but haven't heard back yet. >> My guess ~ $1,000 - $2,000. > > Why would you want to do that? Why not?

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread NPG
On 8/27/2011 2:27 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:34 PM, NPG wrote: >> What we plan to do. >> Add 1 more stratum 2 server and 2 stratum 1 servers to the internal >> server's sync list. >> When we are sure that things are working right, make our internal NTP >> server acces

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-29 Thread Terje Mathisen
David Woolley wrote: John Hasler wrote: Shipping products lacking adequate filtering for adjacent band interference just because those bands are not presently in use is just plain bad engineering. The new adjacent channel signal could be arbitrarily strong. You have to make some assumptions,

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread David J Taylor
"John Hasler" wrote in message news:87pqjpzei4@thumper.dhh.gt.org... David writes: Putting anything powerful and widespread next to a weak-signal satellite band in use by consumer appliances is just plain crazy planning, in fact it's a complete lack of planning! Shipping products lacking

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread David J Taylor
"Brian Utterback" wrote in message news:4e5aa449.3090...@oracle.com... [] There are two sides with different figures. The GPS industry says that 500,000,000 units would be affected. The company LightSquared says it is really 200,000. The DOD standards for GPS receivers issued in 2008 says that

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Shipping products lacking adequate filtering for adjacent band > interference just because those bands are not presently in use is just > plain bad engineering. David writes: > The new adjacent channel signal could be arbitrarily strong. You have > to make some assumptions, The consum

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-28, John Hasler wrote: > David writes: >> Putting anything powerful and widespread next to a weak-signal >> satellite band in use by consumer appliances is just plain crazy >> planning, in fact it's a complete lack of planning! > > Shipping products lacking adequate filtering for adjace

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread Brian Utterback
On 08/28/11 11:23, David J Taylor wrote: > "Brian Utterback" wrote in message > news:4e5a2a83.6030...@oracle.com... > [] >> According to the FCC info, the problem is due to old GPS units not >> sufficiently filtering out the adjacent bands that were previously >> empty. Since the bands are current

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread David Woolley
John Hasler wrote: Shipping products lacking adequate filtering for adjacent band interference just because those bands are not presently in use is just plain bad engineering. The new adjacent channel signal could be arbitrarily strong. You have to make some assumptions, __

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > Putting anything powerful and widespread next to a weak-signal > satellite band in use by consumer appliances is just plain crazy > planning, in fact it's a complete lack of planning! Shipping products lacking adequate filtering for adjacent band interference just because those ban

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread David J Taylor
"Brian Utterback" wrote in message news:4e5a2a83.6030...@oracle.com... [] According to the FCC info, the problem is due to old GPS units not sufficiently filtering out the adjacent bands that were previously empty. Since the bands are currently empty, I am not so sure that it is only older unit

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-28 Thread Brian Utterback
On 08/28/11 01:47, David J Taylor wrote: > That's the FCC in the US, Bill, not the UK. Allowing a high-power > signal on an adjacent frequency to GPS may well block GPS if it is > allowed to go ahead. The UK GPS events are one-off military tests, like > every country likely carries out. > > An e

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-27 Thread David J Taylor
"unruh" wrote in message news:slrnj5i9jn.uul.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] Why would you want to do that? Get a Sure gps receiver for $50 do a bit of wiring, and get far greater accuracy than from WWV (assuming that the UK does not proceed with its apparent plans to permanantly block GPS.

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-27 Thread unruh
On 2011-08-27, NPG wrote: > In the near future, we plan to put a public ntp server online and join > pool.ntp.org. > > I think I understand all that needs to be done, but want to bounce it > off some people who know what they are doing, before this project gets > underway. > > What we have. > An i

Re: [ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:34 PM, NPG wrote: > What we have. > An internal host running NTPd and syncing with 2 stratum 2 servers on > the internet. All internal hosts syncing with the internal NTP server. > > What we plan to do. > Add 1 more stratum 2 server and 2 stratum 1 servers to the inter

[ntp:questions] Questions about joining pool.ntp.org

2011-08-26 Thread NPG
In the near future, we plan to put a public ntp server online and join pool.ntp.org. I think I understand all that needs to be done, but want to bounce it off some people who know what they are doing, before this project gets underway. What we have. An internal host running NTPd and syncing with