Hi Sounds *very* useful.
Which version(s) of FreeBSD have you tried it on? Thanks! Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:41 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Daemon for FreeBSD I have written a small daemon that attaches to a Thunderbolt and acts as a client for Lady Heather. In addition, if specified it will provide data to NTP through the shared memory driver. It currently compiles on FreeBSD, and OS X. Available at <http://ralphsmith.org/~ralph/thunderbolt.tar.gz> It is in a very early, rough stage at the moment, but I thought I would provide it for anyone that is interested. There are two programs: tboltd, and gpsdclient. First tboltd: Usage: tboltd [-t <tty>] [-v] [-p <port>] [-u <unit>] [-d] -t <tty>: Specify Thunderbolt serial port. Default 'cuau1'. -v: Increase verbosity level. -p <port>: UDP port to listen for client connections. Default 45000. -u <unit>: Unit number for NTP shared memory driver. Default to none -d: Do not detach and run in daemon mode. Some notes: - tboltd will currently accept as many clients as memory allows. - tboltd currently does not buffer requests from clients. Multiple clients risk having commands interleaved. - Logging needs to be implemented properly - tboltd blocks when there is no activity on the thunderbolt or client. On a Net4501 (133 MHz 486 equivalent), with 3 clients (1 Heather + 2 gpsdclient) it takes less than 1% CPU. - Likely to be bugs. - I invoke it on my Net4501 as "tboltd -p 45000 -t cuau1 -u 0" - Corresponding ntp.conf entry # Use shared memory tos mindist 0.030 server 127.127.28.0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 prefer fudge 127.127.28.0 time1 0.0275 refid GPS Second: gpsdclient. gpsdclient will attach to tboltd or gpsd, receive Thunderbold TSIP packets, and drive an NTP shared memory segment. Usage: ./gpsdclient [-g] [-u <unit>] [-p <port>] host - The -g flag will sent the command to gpsd to put it in super-raw mode to deliver TSIP - Currently not configured to detach and run as a daemon, will fix that when I get around to it. This needs some cleanup and reorganization, but I thought some of you might be interested. Any comments or suggestions please let me know. -- Ralph Smith (AB4RS) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.