[ntp:questions] Re: OS recomendations for stratum 2 clocks

David Schwartz davids at webmaster.com
Thu Sep 8 02:33:39 UTC 2005


"Harlan Stenn" <stenn at ntp.isc.org> wrote in message 
news:ywn9hdcw8iyy.fsf at ntp1.isc.org...

>I gather the soekris 4501s do an even better job with NTP than the 4801s.
>
> This assumes you want "new" hardware.
>
> If all you want to run is ntp and perhaps a small web server, pretty much
> any old/suitable box will do fine.
>
> This also assume you are not interested in creating a Good S1 server.

    I would just recommend making sure it's at least a Pentium class 
machine. You really want a CPU with a TSC. Although I guess for a stratum 
two, the accuracy difference might not be noticeable.

    DS





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