On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:10 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [...] > > After a bit of googling I found an excellent write-up on how to use one > > of these for an NTP server [http://time.qnan.org/ "Using a Garmin GPS 18 > > LVC as NTP stratum-0 on Linux 2.6"] > > > > Your NTP server need not live in a computer room; it can be anywhere > that you have a LAN connection! A PC that has been retired from desktop > service can be recycled as an NTP server. A "486/33" has more than > enough computing power to be an NTP server. You'll probably have to > settle for a Pentium because I think the museums have cornered the > market in 486s! ;-) > > Some flavor of Linux would be a good choice of O/S.
Yeah, I do a lot of recycling here, what with our tiny budget. It would have to be something reliable, though, if it's going to be our primary time server. I'd probably reserve a couple of our old Dell Dimension XPS PIII machines installed with Fedora 9/10. You might be surprised to learn what's still being used in a production environment these days. We have an old VME chassis running AT&T Unix System III. We also have recycled Gateway 486-DX2 machine doing internal firewall/routing between DSL links. Don't even get me started on the real-time OS Unix variants. ./Cal _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
