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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:57:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com>
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Subject: Re: timed vs. xntpd
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jay L. West wrote:

> We have a router that is synchronized to the US Naval Observatory timeclock
> via NTP. We would like to have our FreeBSD systems in turn synchronize to
> our router.
> 
> Upon looking into FreeBSD's support for NPT, I came across the docs for
> timed. It appears to me that timed and xntpd are basically equivalents (you
> can use one or the other but not both).
> 
> Is this correct? I know the router supports ntp, but probably not timed
> (it's a
> cisco 2514 enterprise). Any help is most appreciated! Please respond to
> this
> email directly as I'm not on the questions list.

Not sure, but I use xntpd and it picks up NTP servers just fine.

Just make an /etc/ntp.conf like this:

#ntp configuration file for gdi.uoregon.edu
server phloem.uoregon.edu

Change the server to match your situation (in this case to point to your
router), then enable it in sysconfig with: 

xntpdflags="-c /etc/ntp.conf"

And you're off and rolling.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major