Hello, For years I’ve have ntpd+NMEA+PPS working great. My OS was Ubuntu server 12.04 - and then (currently) 14.04. GPS is a Garmin LVC 18x.
I use setserial to set low_latency, I’ve reduced the NMEA sentence to bare minimum, etc. All the usual tweaks. All of this going into a real UART serial PCI slot board (no USB) on a full size PC. My relevant ntp.conf for this: server 127.127.20.0 mode 1 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 fudge 127.127.20.0 flag1 1 flag2 0 flag3 1 time2 0.600 I decided to try to upgrade, and hit nothing but roadblocks. So far I’ve tried both Debian 9 and Ubuntu 18.04. What I observe is that my GPS offset steadily climbs and climbs. It never seems to decrease. I’ve also tried the above config with flag3 set to 0 (“soft” PPS). In all of these cases I’ve verified with ppswatch that I have pps coming in on the port. It really seems like something has changed in the kernel in the past few years that’s causing this. It’s about the only thing I can think of as a variable. I’ve tried distro ntpd packages as well as compiling a few versions of the latest source. All with the same behavior. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this behavior ? -- Brandon Applegate - CCIE 10273 PGP Key fingerprint: 0641 D285 A36F 533A 73E5 2541 4920 533C C616 703A "For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible." _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
