Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:35:53 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel clock runs inaccurately Message-ID: <199709170735.AAA20165@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:13:42 %2B0930." <19970917151342.00824@lemis.com>
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I guess it depens on your ISDN switch it used to take me 20ms now is probably closer to a second --- my guess is that PacBell did an upgrade 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Greg Lehey : > 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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