Tom> I've found Raspberry PI's to be OK for small-scale NTP servers, Tom> if not doing much else. The clocks aren't fantastic, but they Tom> track higher level stratum clocks quite well in my very limited Tom> experience.
Tom> Hmmm, the screenly folks do a turnkey SD card image for PIs for Tom> their app. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to do something Tom> similar for making an NTP server? I wonder how well BeagleBone Blacks (BBB) would do instead of the PIs? Faster CPU and more memory and better network hardware. It's not like NTP takes a ton of resources anyway... you could setup a triplet at multiple locations for not alot of money. And I think you can power them over PoE... nope, not without a bunch of injectors and at that point it's not worth it in my book. But I'd still thing the BBB might be a better solution. Or even some of the dedicated 1U rackable units. But getting bosses to buy these things is a hard sell for something they don't always think of as important or critical. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
