[ntp:questions] Re: NTP, Mac OS X & Cisco 837

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 13 14:53:17 UTC 2005


Maarten Wiltink wrote:

>"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>[...] It may also be worth noting that many people feel that routers
>>should devote their resources to routing and not to keeping time.
>>Again, I have never been responsible for a Cisco router and done
>>know if this is a caution based on experience or simply prejudice.
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>It's based on the observation that routers make poor servers. But
>the OP wants it to be a client. Router client good, router server
>bad.
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>Groetjes,
>Maarten Wiltink
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Why would a router need to be a client unless it was also acting as a 
server?  Why would it need to know the time at all?  If it needed to 
know the time, why would it need the accuracy offered NTP?



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