On Friday 22 September 2006 14:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:26:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > > For a laptop . . . > > > > What do/would you use and why? > > ntp assumes a permanent connection, so chrony is probably a better > solution. I thin it was originally intended for dialup use, but is well > suited to a laptop with an intermittent Internet connection. > > I should use it on mine, but never bothered to set it up, I still use > rdate run from the network postup() script.
Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo (it
works with WinXP):
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22:23:52.518518 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP
(17), length: 28) 192.168.0.5.32788 > ntp.metronet.co.uk.time: UDP, length 0
22:23:52.518830 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38401, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 72) 192.168.0.5.32789 > router.domain: 65070+[|domain]
22:23:52.533571 IP (tos 0xa0, ttl 60, id 49836, offset 0, flags [none],
proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) ntp.metronet.co.uk > 192.168.0.5: ICMP
ntp.metronet.co.uk udp port time unreachable, length 36
IP (tos 0x40, ttl 60, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17),
length: 28) 192.168.0.5.32788 > ntp.metronet.co.uk.time: [|udp]
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What's this "port time unreachable" message - the rdate command times out of
course.
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Regards,
Mick
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