Talk to your network gang, too. Cisco router IOS at release 12.0 or better has NTP support. Adjust you firewall to allow it to request the time from one of the Cesium clocks (Naval Observatory I think), and you've got the time. We point our Linux instances at the Cisco for second level synching
On Friday 30 May 2003 17:47, you wrote: > Steve ... > > Linux/390 will synch time with NTP > just as effectively as Linux on a PC will. > VM does not benefit from this (but is not harmed by it). > I have *not* found NTP to be a resource hog; in fact, it is > designed to be kind of low impact. (Seems to sleep a lot > waiting for time to pass and then check again what time it is.) > > Hopefully you have an internal time reference. > If not, you'll have to find one outside of your network. > (Probably okay, but there's no telling how responsive they > will be since it is a courtesy of sorts.) You're welcome to hit > my personal network (at home). Contact me off list for that addr. > (I'm not in the NTP biz.) > > -- R;
