Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:13:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel clock runs inaccurately Message-ID: <19970917151342.00824@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709170431.GAA29657@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 06:31:55AM %2B0200 References: <199709080124.JAA14004@tao.sinanet.com.tw> <19970908081010.DS04250@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net> <19970911064231.JG62790@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709170431.GAA29657@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 06:31:55AM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: >> >> Too expensive still. The dialup itself is ISDN, so the setup time is >> ~ 2 seconds or less, but having an xntpd calling each 5 or 15 minutes >> would greatly increase our phone and Internet costs. > > BTW: What kind of setup are you running to get <2s setup time? I'm > consistently ending up at 4-5s, having tried with different external > TAs, ISDN-adapters, PPP-implementations and portmasters. Call setup time is usually outside your control. It depends on the public network. When I lived in Germany, setup time was closer to 1 second than 2. Greg
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