John Kennedy wrote: > After speaking with a Trimble Rep for quite some time, he assured me > that using the Trimble conversion box (has 2 outputs port A = Passive, > port B active) using Port A, we could essentially connect 3 PC's to it > using a special cable that is basically a Y-cable. The rep said that > Port A only sends a High/Low message out to the GPS antenna in order to > stimulate the antenna to send back an NTP type message. The port B of > the device is used for configuration and is meant to be truly > bi-directional in nature. With respect to the driver for NTP, according > to information on the NTP4.x for windows NT documentation from > www.eecis.udeledu/~mills/ntp/html/build/hints/winnt.html website, the > palisade gps driver is already built into the code. I have opened the > code and can see the files for this driver in it, but I cannot get it > to compile correctly. I am looking to some of the software engineers > here for some help on this, but it doesn't look like its coming any > time soon. Unfortunately the PC's are not connected to an Ethernet > network in a way that we can send data. They are connected to the > network, but do so over Vampire Ethernet Taps, which allow them to only > see the data on the wire, and not to transmit. >
John, It turns out that although there is a specific refclock for the Trimble clock on Windows, and separate code for it, it wasn't being built. I can add it back in, but I can't tell you about how well it will work as I don't think it's been maintained. Does anyone else use Trimble on Windows? Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
