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

John Pettitt jpp at cloudview.com
Thu Sep 8 03:59:46 UTC 2005


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Pete Stephenson wrote:
> In article <p062007a6bf450a7b3b72@[10.0.1.210]>,
>  brad at stop.mail-abuse.org (Brad Knowles) wrote:
> 
> 
>>	Nice little boxes.  See <http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm>. 
>>The pricelist at <http://www.soekris.com/how_to_buy.htm> shows that, 
>>in quantities of one, board and case for a net4501 runs $177, plus 
>>power supply ($9-16, depending on model).  UPS ground shipping within 
>>the Continental US is free for orders over $130, but you pay extra if 
>>you want something else.
>>
>>
>>	But then, maybe this is a bit smaller than you had in mind.  ;-)
> 
> 
> That looks exactly like what I'm looking for.
> 
> Now, the question is how does one interface with it visually? Only via a 
> serial cable and a terminal emulator on a "host" PC? Doesn't look like 
> it has any capability for a monitor, keyboard, or other interfaces.
> 
> Otherwise, it sounds great. Anyone have any experience on how easy it is 
> to configure FreeBSD on them and get an NTP server running? It's been a 
> while since I've dealt with FreeBSD...and then it was only trying to get 
> it working on a RaQ3, which didn't work out too well.
> 


Pretty easy.  I'm running 4801's which take a laptop HD so I just
loaded FreeBSD on the drive on a PC then plugged it in (see phk's
sokeris page for the other changes you need to make).   The 4501 uses
CF cards and there are some CF image sites around (ask on the sokeris
mailing list).  You only need a serial cable until you have it booted
then you just ssh to it and do everything that way.

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