Rainer Orth wrote:
We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated
with the Nevada and Device Driver communities.
While historially SunOS 4 and Solaris have been platforms of choice for
NTP timekeeping and leading-edge development, Solaris has fallen behind
other platforms (notably FreeBSD) in recent years. This is due to a couple
of issues:
* The NTP daemon and utilities have seen much development in preparation
for the upcoming NTPv4 standard. Unfortunately, Solaris still ships the
ancient xntp (NTPv3) daemon.
* The NTP kernel support has evolved beyond the code currently in Solaris,
but those enhancements have not been picked up.
* There's a multi-vendor API for reference clocks that provide a
pulse-per-second signal (PPS API, RFC 2783). While Solaris has some
support for PPS devices, it failed to implement the PPS API
specification.
* Recent serial interface chips have seriously degraded NTP performance
due to extended on-chip buffering, so current systems have become
considerably worse for attaching serial reference clocks.
* The PPS serial support in the kernel is a private interface that was
not published in the DDI, so only onboard serial ports are supported.
* The TOD synchronizaton model is fundamentally broken in Solaris and
has resulted in unstable system clocks and wasted thousands of dollars
in support calls and needlessly replaced hardware.
* The adjtime system call slews the clock in a way that can disrupt NTP
time networks.
This project seems to remedy those problems and again turn Solaris into a
primary NTP deployment and development platform.
Project leaders will be Brian Utterback and myself.
Rainer
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
Thanks for taking this on... +1.
Can part of this be to change ntp.conf to be configured against
pool.ntp.org? Perhaps configured to use the right continent via
timezone?
- Bart
--
Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
