I have had great success with the common ** Large Time Server Vendor**. I have used several of their devices from network gear to their basic NTP boxes. I think they even have a basic NTP box now that is fairly reasonable. Have lost GPS on the unit and it still kept ticking with failover to stratum 2 with the configured NTP pool. May have to step up to another model to get vlan support.
If thats too much, +1 Mini-ITX. I would recommend a Ethernet PCI card as a 2nd backup interface if local time is important. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12/18/12 17:25, Jonathan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail >> gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted >> RFC1918 networks. We are planning to virtualise those mail gateways, and >> so we need to find a new home for NTP. I am aware that we could purchase >> dedicated GPS-based stratum 0/1 NTP servers, but I don't want the hassle >> of getting a good GPS signal in to the heart of our data centres and our >> time sync requirements aren't too tight. Before purchasing three >> dedicated 1U servers which I plan to site at three different >> (geographically close) campuses, I thought I'd ask if anyone has any >> cheap/neat solutions which can support multiple NICs/VLANs and have a >> generally drift-free clock. Bonus points for kit available off the shelf >> in the UK. Apologies if my terminology offends any NTP gurus; hopefully >> my requirements are clear. >> > > I tend to like a 1U Mini-ITX box. > You can put together a kit from http://www.mini-itx.com/ > > I currently use an Atom based board. > > -- > Mr. Flibble > King of the Potato People > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/tech<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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