DMZ Variant

2003-09-22 Thread landau_alex
Hi all! I have a linux box with 2 network interfaces: external (connected to the Internet) and internal (connected to my LAN). The box acts as a firewall, I'm also doing NAT. I have several ports open on the box itself and have set up port forwarding to a few machines on the LAN. I want any

FW: NTP Time Synchronization

2003-09-11 Thread landau_alex
Hi, For some strange reason my kernel clock goes (much) faster than the hardware clock (about a second every minute), so I decided to run ntpd. I configured it to a specific NTP server and now it synchronizes with the server when the offset is about 10sec. How can I change the default to say 1sec

`date' and `hwclock'

2003-09-08 Thread landau_alex
Hi all, I paid attention that the time showed by `date' is not the accurate time - thje clock slows down by ~150ms every 16 secs, whearas `hwclock' shows the exact time. In my application I need a very accurate time and I prefer to retrieve it with `date' and not with `hwclock' (I'm using NTP and