It seems like a waste to spend money on "NTP appliances," when you can build an "enterprise quality" system using Linux (for free) in a matter of minutes. We run three, and they have supported over 10k devices with zero problems for over 5 years. It's not like ntpd is very resource intensive.
Josh On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Andrew Miehs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from a mobile device > > On 23/06/2012, at 15:05, Mack McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A good linux server will suffice. > > 6500s have a pretty wimpy CPU. > > This is from a linux server with a cheap atom board: > > > > Agreed - If it were only me, I too would run a couple of boxes, but this > is an enterprise site. > > Unfortunately the team here has little unix know how which is why I am > looking for appliances. The plan is that all the network infracture and > wireless gear - mostly cisco would use these servers - so no more than > 10000 devices - would like something with a stable clock however. We have > already had some authentication issues due to times being in the future. > > Regards > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
