I've scrounged a couple old Pentium M laptops (Hewlett-Packard nc6000s for the trivia-minded) with serial ports while entertaining the possibility of undertaking a project to do what so many others have done - connect-up a GPS receiver with PPS support. That has me wondering about some of the previous discussion about USB and how it is perhaps not "evil" but considered quite sub-par for serving-up the PPS signal.
Is that unsuitability inherent in USB, so it matters not whether there is anything else on the USB, or is it more a case of being "bad" generally only when other things are on the same USB? I'm still looking to go serial, but was wondering. Also, speaking of things considered "bad" and drifting - fudging the LOCAL(0) is definitely frowned upon right? If I happen to have say four servers in a location which might loose its connectivity to the outside world I probably don't want those servers to fall-back on LOCAL(0) right? Would configuring each to have the other three as "peer" entities be the way to go? Pointers to the fine manual for any of the above would be welcome. thanks, rick jones -- I don't interest myself in "why." I think more often in terms of "when," sometimes "where;" always "how much." - Joubert these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
