Dave Vandervies wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If the net comes back with the same address you don't need to restart - >> if it comes back with a >> different address you do. > > Coming back with the same address is unlikely, and even having the > same network interface come back up is probably not much better than > random chance. > > So if I start ntpd on boot (with no network interface up), and restart > it every time I bring up a network connection, it will handle starting > with just the local clock and losing network connections sensibly without > having to make changes to ntp.conf? >
Unless you want to use different servers there should be no need to change the configuration file. > > Also, by email you mentioned CPU frequency changes for power management. > That could be a problem, since I have it configured to scale the CPU > speed based on the load (with the Linux 2.6 cpufreq driver). Is there > a way to work around this without disabling the scaling entirely? > (Or is cpufreq handled differently enough to not be considered a > "low-power mode"?) > It depends how this all works within Linux. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
