On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Your NTP servers are better. > > I tested a III Plus, and without a 1 PPS source (which that model > doesn't provide) it's accurate to about 100ms, give or take. Since > real NTP servers are < 1ms, they really aren't that good. It's > not that the time isn't accurate, it's that they were not designed > to communicate with that accuracy to an external device. OTOH, 100ms is pretty close; I doubt many people need time better than that. The one big advantage I can see with using a GPS receiver vs NTP servers is security & reliability; I've always worried that my clock might start to drift to a misconfigured NTP server. Taken to a paranoid level, you could worry that someone was faking NTP replies to throw your clocks off. :) So, even at 100ms accuracy, it might be better to use a local GPS unit. <shrug> Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
