Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg PPS signal is not synchronous with refclock signal

2008-12-19 Thread alkope...@googlemail.com
On Dec 18, 7:56 pm, Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: That you PPS has an offset of 20-40usec does surprize me. It should be much better than that (2-4ms is more typical) Running time was not long enough at that point. In the last 12 hours I have these values: Min: -4 us, Max: +6.9 us,

Re: [ntp:questions] basic questions about the leapsecond

2008-12-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Hal Murray wrote: That site is unlikely to be down for long. It's still down. I can ping time.nist.gov, but it won't FTP. Are you behind a NAT box? I need to use the passive mode for ftp. No. I also tried the shell box at my ISP. Same result. Regards, Rob

Re: [ntp:questions] basic questions about the leapsecond

2008-12-19 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there David L. Mills wrote: I am told the file is on all NTP servers operated by NIST. See the list of public servers at NIST or www.ntp.org. ftp://ntp-a.boulder.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3427142400 works Thanks! Regards, Rob ___ questions

[ntp:questions] GPS Trimble Acutime Gold - USB Interface

2008-12-19 Thread Pedro Torres
I have a Trimble Acutime Gold GPS[1] and I got some problems installing that device in both FreeBSD and Linux. That GPS has an USB Interface with FTDI support. FreeBSD configuration: 1) kldload uftdi 2) dmesg: ucom0: FTDI Dual RS232, class 0/0, rev 2.00/5.00, addr 2 on uhub3 ucom1: FTDI Dual

Re: [ntp:questions] basic questions about the leapsecond

2008-12-19 Thread ailtonsr
On 19 dez, 09:43, Rob van der Putten r...@sput.nl wrote: Hi there David L. Mills wrote: I am told the file is on all NTP servers operated by NIST. See the list of public servers at NIST orwww.ntp.org. ftp://ntp-a.boulder.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3427142400works Thanks! Regards, Rob

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux and mlockall()

2008-12-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article %sbusjd...@khar-pern.talamasca.ocis.net, Michael Deutschmann mich...@talamasca.ocis.net writes: Michael One thing I thought I knew about the standard NTP distribution, was Michael that it uses the mlockall() call, when available, to prevent Michael swapping and thus gain more

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS Trimble Acutime Gold - USB Interface

2008-12-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Pedro, First, USB serial devices generally have a *lot* of jitter on them. Second, have you seen: http://support.ntp.org/Support/ConfiguringTrimblePalisadeAcutimeRefclocks -- Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS Trimble Acutime Gold - USB Interface

2008-12-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Hi Pedro, You will be in good shape with USB serial if you can find some other way to get a PPS signal into your box. H -- Hi Harlan, Trimble native serial GPS was discontinued. I just received the device without opportunity to choise other. Yes, I have seen the support page about

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS Trimble Acutime Gold - USB Interface

2008-12-19 Thread Greg Dowd
I see this has an event capture input. Has anyone tried using this vs bringing in the pps to see if they can lower the jitter on interrupt handler? -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+gdowd=symmetricom@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS Trimble Acutime Gold - USB Interface

2008-12-19 Thread Pedro Torres
Hi Harlan, Trimble native serial GPS was discontinued. I just received the device without opportunity to choise other. Yes, I have seen the support page about Trimble/Palisade but I could not find any thing to justify the reported problems. offset now ~ 150ms :( Thanks, Pedro On Fri, Dec 19,