Please set an account up on thyrsus.com for me.
You can grab SSH keys like so: curl -O https://github.com/<username>.keys So thus get mine at https://github.com/fallenpegasus.keys ..m On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:54 PM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > Really good plans have happy consequences one didn't foresee. But also > complicating ones. > > Mark encouraged me to work on the Microserver HOWTO as a recruitment > device for future time-service experts and, implicitly, so I would > learn more about how NTP works from the outside. Those were good > reasons. > > Now it's growing another use that Mark may not have foreseen - > benchmarking different ntp.conf setups and measuring comparative > offsets and jitter. For these purposes, having several co-located > machines with identical hardware/software configurations and the > same Internet connectivity is ideal. > > However, this also creates an implicit bottleneck. Hal wants me to > set up a machine with both a HAT and a GR701W and use it to measure > offsets. It's a an excellent idea, but I can't do it in any > predictable amount of time - I'm working as hard as I can just keeping > the project-related backlog in my mailbox from overwhelming me. More > generally, Eric as the only person who can use the test farm is not > going to scale well. > > Accordingly, I'll make logins on the thyrsus.com bastion host > available to project developers. The test farm is accessible from > there. I'll make myself available to plug and unplug hardware > on request. > > Current test farm inventory: > > au.local - Pi 2 with blue-wired SKU 424254 > cu.local - Pi 2 with Uputronics HAT > fe.local - Pi 3 with Adafruit HAT > > All three have skyview good enough that they pretty much always have > lock except just after power-cycling. GR601-W or GR-701 USB GPSes > can be plugged into any of these on request. > > Soon to arrive: > > * an Odroid C2 (ordered) > > * 8-port Netgear switch because my existing one is run out of ports - > going to dedicate this one to the lab. POE capable because that's > part of the plan for the BeagleBone variant (ordered) > > * an Anker 10-port powered USB hub, because Mark turned out to be > unsurpringly right that el cheapo unpowered hubs aren't stable > enough (ordered) > > * two more Pi 3/Adafruit HAT combinations and a HAT for the Odroid > (not yet ordered, but I know I have to for the ntp.conf comparisons) > > Currently planning for a maximum of 10 test machines and an actual > complement of 7 - 2 Pi2s, 3 Pi3s, an Odroid C2, and a Beaglebone Black. > > Sigh. I've spent years avoiding learning enough about network > management to run a server farm this size. No longer, it seems. > > Funniest possibility: If I need a rack for these systems, > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5nrHz9I94 > > A functional rack made of legos. That's worth some geekery points > right there. > -- > >>esr>> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@ntpsec.org > http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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