On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Michael Stone <mstone+soek...@mathom.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>> The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven
>> clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in
>> the kernel added precision to the timekeeping?
>
> That's the net4501, not the net4801. FWIW, without replacing the clock and
> using a custom ntpd the 4501 is ok as an NTP server but not spectacular. The
> limited memory and cpu hurt if you run a current OS & ntpd. Remember,
> nobody's actively targeted that hardware in a decade. The net4801 will
> probably do as well in the real world even without the elan timer registers.
I assumed that a gps with PPS output was required.
— Chris
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