Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: Cut A lot of people however, by an embedded system, hook op a GPS receiver, find that PPS doesn't work and then just give up. Apparently GPSD supports PPS on CTS. So if you already have got an embedded system and a GPS receiver and your 232 cape supports

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread David Taylor
On 09/07/2014 18:45, Paul wrote: [] However you're showing a bias which steers away from a better solution, not needing the overhead of fully-featured NTPd isn't a defect it's an advantage. Simply that different folk have different needs. You later say: It's a Reference Clock not an instance

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Brian Utterback
On 7/9/2014 11:40 PM, Paul wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Null wrote: [stuff] Please check the links provided. It would seem the most common problem people have is not being able to think about a network attached reference clock that uses NTP responses rather than PPS + serial stream

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Paul
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:20 AM, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Simply that different folk have different needs. This true but not nearly as much as people think. But yes different folks have different needs. Despite that in the next sentence You later say: It's a

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Paul
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: You still have the keys problem. Keys authenticate the NTP server to the client. How would you manage keys? Are you asking if it supports autokey? It currently doesn't, according to the doc there's one

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Brian Utterback
On 7/10/2014 9:26 AM, Paul wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: You still have the keys problem. Keys authenticate the NTP server to the client. How would you manage keys? Are you asking if it supports autokey? It currently doesn't,

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread David Taylor
On 10/07/2014 14:13, Paul wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:20 AM, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Simply that different folk have different needs. This true but not nearly as much as people think. But yes different folks have different needs. Despite that in the

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Paul
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: Well, at least it supports the one key and it is apparently changeable. But NTP authentication is not mutual authentication, nor does it have anything to do with entitlement of the client. I spoke overly

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread David Taylor
On 08/07/2014 19:14, Paul wrote: [] The previous version let you monitor the GPS data stream and I monitor time performance indirectly e.g. using ntpdate. Since it doesn't actually run NTP typical NTP status and management is irrelevant. I have to disagree with you there. As I understand, it

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread Paul
On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: I have to disagree with you there. As I understand, it is an NTP server Quoting the maker: ... Laureline is an embedded SNTP server that receives time from a GPS receiver in the form of a pulse-per-second

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread Paul
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: ... Laureline is an embedded SNTP server By the way that was the description of the previous generation product -- the original is here: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/oshw/'laureline'-embedded-gps-ntp-server/ The current version

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread David Taylor
On 09/07/2014 14:23, Paul wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: ... Laureline is an embedded SNTP server By the way that was the description of the previous generation product -- the original is here:

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread Paul
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:42 AM, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: However, for me, if someone wants an NTP server something like the Raspberry Pi with GPS/PPS is a good, simple, cheap solution, which is easily managed by the user. No management required can be better

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Paul wrote: A Laureline is a better NTP response provider than an RPi (see mike cook's plots) and doesn't require *any* configuration or monitoring (but mike cook shows graphs for those that care about such things). No compiling, no OS updates, no conf file fiddling, no management.

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-09 Thread Paul
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Null wrote: [stuff] Please check the links provided. It would seem the most common problem people have is not being able to think about a network attached reference clock that uses NTP responses rather than PPS + serial stream as a solution to time transfer. It's

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Paul wrote: One normally uses a so-called GPIO pin to read PPS on systems that lack a DCD line or a parallel port. E.g. BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi. Obviously. A lot of people however, by an embedded system, hook op a GPS receiver, find that PPS doesn't work and then just give up.

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread Jason Rabel
I'd have to look this up but think board using Elan 486 used the on chip high speed timer to timestamp the pps input at a gpio port along with a custom ntpd on FreeBSD to obtain sub us offset. You mean something like this? *grin* http://www.rabel.org/pics/Net4501-2.jpg Yes, that is one of

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread David Taylor
On 08/07/2014 11:01, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Paul wrote: One normally uses a so-called GPIO pin to read PPS on systems that lack a DCD line or a parallel port. E.g. BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi. Obviously. A lot of people however, by an embedded system, hook op a GPS receiver,

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread Paul
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:38 PM, David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote: I'd have to look this up but think board using Elan 486 used the on chip high speed timer to timestamp the pps input at a gpio port along with a custom ntpd on FreeBSD to obtain sub us offset. Perhaps you're referring to

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread Paul
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Rob van der Putten r...@sput.nl wrote: A lot of people however, by an embedded system, hook op a GPS receiver, find that PPS doesn't work and then just give up. That's appropriate. If you don't know what you're doing and choose not to do the work to learn then

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread David Lord
Paul wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:38 PM, David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote: I'd have to look this up but think board using Elan 486 used the on chip high speed timer to timestamp the pps input at a gpio port along with a custom ntpd on FreeBSD to obtain sub us offset. Perhaps you're

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread David Taylor
On 08/07/2014 14:37, Paul wrote: [] People looking for inexpensive, low overhead NTP appliances should be supporting Partially Stapled's Laureline development. I would have supported that, partially because I like the chap what he does, but their server didn't support any of the standard NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread Paul
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:00 PM, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: I would have supported that, partially because I like the chap what he does, but their server didn't support any of the standard NTP management commands last time I looked I did talk to him about

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-08 Thread mike cook
I bought one of these to see what it could do and wrote a review on the Tindie site. One of the issues I raised was the volume and ad hoc format of stats messages he puts out on port 514 for syslog . I just updated that review with info on a log message filter I wrote, which makes loopstats

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-07 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Jaap Winius wrote: Has anyone here managed to turn a relatively cheap, ARM-based embedded system with a serial port into a decent stratum 1 NTP server? Thus far I've always attached my GPS and radio time signal receivers to much larger x86 hardware platforms, but those machines have

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-07 Thread Paul
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Rob van der Putten r...@sput.nl wrote: AFAIK the BBB 232 cape doesn't support DCD, so PPS is not available. One normally uses a so-called GPIO pin to read PPS on systems that lack a DCD line or a parallel port. E.g. BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi.

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-07 Thread David Lord
Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Jaap Winius wrote: Has anyone here managed to turn a relatively cheap, ARM-based embedded system with a serial port into a decent stratum 1 NTP server? Thus far I've always attached my GPS and radio time signal receivers to much larger x86 hardware

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-06 Thread detha
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:37:05 +, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, Has anyone here managed to turn a relatively cheap, ARM-based embedded system with a serial port into a decent stratum 1 NTP server? Thus far I've always attached my GPS and radio time signal receivers to much larger x86

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-06 Thread Paul
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:25 AM, detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: Be sure to include some form of external RTC though. While sometimes useful a real time clock isn't required on a typical* S1 server. By the way, some GPS modules have an RTC which (if battery supported) will produce a reasonable

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-06 Thread Jason Rabel
Jaap, You can skim over these past few months on the time-nuts list. There's lots of threads with discussion on ARM, Beaglebone, Rasberry Pi, etc... for GPS based NTP servers... http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2014-March/date.html

[ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-05 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, Has anyone here managed to turn a relatively cheap, ARM-based embedded system with a serial port into a decent stratum 1 NTP server? Thus far I've always attached my GPS and radio time signal receivers to much larger x86 hardware platforms, but those machines have other things to do

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-05 Thread Paul
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote: Has anyone here managed to turn a relatively cheap, ARM-based embedded system with a serial port into a decent stratum 1 NTP server? Yes (Google NTP Beaglebone or NTP Raspberry Pi I have both) although since that almost