Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:42:31 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel clock runs inaccurately Message-ID: <19970911064231.JG62790@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sep 10, 1997 22:25:50 %2B0200 References: <199709080124.JAA14004@tao.sinanet.com.tw> <19970908081010.DS04250@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net>
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As Eivind Eklund wrote: > > (They are probably living in somewhat of an ivory tower with > > good NTP refclocks readily available on a cheap Internet, something > > that is not my situation, sitting behind dialup lines everywhere.) > > Shouldn't it be still be possible to set up xntpd with > drift-correction and synchronization often, and just suppress > xntpd-messages from starting the ppp-link? 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., the DCF-77 receiver, with fallback to the system clock of the machine hosting this receiver, seems to work well now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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