On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:11:48PM -0400, Chris Watt wrote:
> At 01:53 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Buy a GPS receiver and set up your own Stratum 1. :-)
> This is not a useful solution because:
Well... I was being "partially" facious (note smiley).
> 1. The machine has no free I/O ports or IRQ's thus I would need to buy
> another computer just to use as an NTP server, throwing out existing
> hardware just isn't an option right now, it's all in use.
Now, that's a problem.
> 2. I don't care (much) about the accuracy of the clocks on the LAN, I just
> want them to show the same time as each other. Thus a GPS receiver is
> un-necessary.
> 3. GPS receiver's cost money, atomic clocks cost even more money, in fact
> in general useful reference clocks cost money. Editing my ntp.conf file is
> free and I'm fairly certain that the correct options DO exist, I just don't
> know the syntax/grammar to use.
GPS receivers can be had pretty darn cheap now days. Good
ones even with DGPS capability are a couple of hundred and some of the
"blind" ones (no display) are under a hundred. Maybe you're on a tight
budget, but I know people who throw more than that at video cards.
Be that as it may... This is probably what you need...
(Taken from the example config files in the xntpd source package).
] #
] # Undisciplined Local Clock. This is a fake driver intended for backup
] # and when no outside source of synchronized time is available. The
] # default stratum is usually 3, but in this case we elect to use stratum
] # 0. Since the server line does not have the prefer keyword, this driver
] # is never used for synchronization, unless no other other
] # synchronization source is available. In case the local host is
] # controlled by some external source, such as an external oscillator or
] # another protocol, the prefer keyword would cause the local host to
] # disregard all other synchronization sources, unless the kernel
] # modifications are in use and declare an unsynchronized condition.
] #
] server 127.127.1.0 # local clock
] fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 0
Change the "stratum" number to what you want and you should be set.
Mike
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