If you're making a "box" to sit on the roof, what about a little device that, instead of being a stratum 1 NTP host, was a PTP (Precision Time Protocol) server? You'd thus get much greater accuracy to the host(s) on the other end, potentially allowing them to claim Stratum 1? (You and I realize that this isn't a big deal... I made a point to only sync to stratum 1's on my server in the pool, though, so that it can act as stratum 2 in the pool, rather than stratum 3. The time would be just as good for my purposes, but it's more 'attractive' for clients.)
I confess that I've never actually worked with PTP... My understanding is that it works best with special Ethernet cards, but it seems as if you can do it in software. (PTPd -- ptpd.sf.net, for example.) You might even mix in Power over Ethernet into this little device. Whether a market exists, I have no idea. Just thought I'd confuse things by throwing a few more ideas onto the pile. ;) -- Matt _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
