From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 10 21:51:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26186 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA26178 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA16075 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:50:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id GAA09492; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:42:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970911064231.JG62790@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <199709080124.JAA14004@tao.sinanet.com.tw> <19970908081010.DS04250@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sep 10, 1997 22:25:50 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)