[ntp:questions] Implementing NTP in a legacy system
Uwe Klein
uwe at klein-habertwedt.de
Wed Dec 12 16:02:28 UTC 2012
andreas.ames at de.transport.bombardier.com wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm rather new to NTP so please forgive me, if my question is trivial.
>
> I'm maintaining a legacy system with its own proprietary time
> synchronisation protocols. Now I want to add a new subsystem which
> requires a NTP daemon to be available. I have added a gateway device
> which will be used to run an NTP daemon to provide NTP based time
> synchronisation to the newly added subsystem.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. I want to use my legacy time synchronisation protocol/mechanism as the
> reference clock of the NTP daemon on the gateway device. In my limited
> understanding this means that the NTP daemon on the gateway would become a
> stratum 1 server, right? Are there ways to "easily" add new reference
> clocks in popular implementations like ntpd preferably without setting the
> system time on the gateway?
>
> 2. Is it possible to prevent ntpd on the gateway from setting the system
> time on the gateway?
>
>
3. What are the ramifications in view of this being a certified system?
( just guessing, is this something that has a "Bahntechnische Zulassung" ? )
uwe
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