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Date:      Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:42:47 +0200
From:      Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To:        "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10.2: ntp update breaks DCF77 clock
Message-ID:  <20150815194247.GA38249@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
In-Reply-To: <1439663230.5785.15.camel@michaeleichorn.com>
References:  <slrnmsunlo.104l.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <1439663230.5785.15.camel@michaeleichorn.com>

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Michael B. Eichorn:

> Dunno as to what happened with ntp or how to fix it, but there are a
> couple other ntp soultions in ports that might work. 
> 
> NTP is known to be very complex, IIRC phk@ is being paid by the Linux
> Foundation to write a replacement, ntimed.

At this time, ntimed is an NTP client only.  No server, no support
for reference clocks.  It's a fragment, really.

> Another option is OpenNTPD from OpenBSD, the portable version of this is
> in ports as well.

OpenNTPD does not support any reference clocks on FreeBSD since
there is no equivalent to OpenBSD's sensors framework.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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