Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:58:22 -0400 From: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> To: "Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028" <venkatesh.pandurangi@motorola.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help on setting up of NTP as client/server Message-ID: <015601c113a1$10fca620$0b2d2d0a@battleship> References: <796456A0F96AD511A0AC009027B0F7412D076B@IL27EXM08.cig.mot.com>
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I have a similar setup. Here is what you do for simplist possible operations: Pick one system to be the master. Figure out how that master server will get its time. Some options are radio time devices, GPS devices, or anouther NTP server via the internet. For the first two items, I don't know how to do that...I suggest an manual or something might be useful. For the NTP server, goto http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm and pick a few servers to get your time from. You probably want a stratum 2 server, since pulling from a statum 1 server for 3 systems would be rude. On the master system, create a file /etc/ntp.conf that looks like this: server some.ntp.server.whatever.edu server some.other.server On the other systems, make /etc/ntp.conf with a single line: server w.x.y.z w.x.y.z being the ip address of hostname of your master server. Then on all boxes run ntpd. This can be done with a line in /etc/rc.conf: xntpd_enable="YES" There are many many more options to ntpd, I suggest you read man ntpd man ntp.conf man ntpdate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028" <venkatesh.pandurangi@motorola.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 13:17 Subject: Help on setting up of NTP as client/server > Hi, > > I have setup some FreeBSD 4.2 machines (i386 PC). These PCs connected in a local network using CISCO router. > At present these machines do not have access to DNS and Internet. I want to setup of one of the PC as NTP server and all other PCs as NTP clients, to synchronize the time in all the PCs. In this network environment, how do I setup the 'ntpd' program? > > Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Regards > Venki > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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