[ntp:hackers] Modern FreeBSD NTP Stratum 1 server?
Terje Mathisen
terje at tmsw.no
Wed Dec 16 19:48:06 UTC 2015
tglassey at earthlink.net wrote:
> Terje can you install GPSD as well - does it compile and link
> properly? Does it load?
Yes, I did a ports installation of gpsd, accoding to it everything was
fine except for no PPS signal.
>
> On 12/16/2015 05:59 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>> I have been trying, unsuccessfully, for a couple of days now to
>> replace my old S1 server (ntp1.tmsw.no) which was entered in the pool
>> with an IPv6 address only:
>>
>> The new server was based on PC-BSD 10.1, then I downloaded all the
>> ports and all the kernel source code in order to build a custom kernel.
>>
>> (I first tried to simply use kldload to load the PPS modulu which
>> seemed to work but when configuring ntpd (latest ntp-dev code) it
>> didn't seem like pps was located so the ntpd binary was built without
>> PPS support.)
>
> Interesting - did a device entry appear in /dev for the install?
Yes, afair.
Terje
>>
>> Anyway, after the custom kernel was installed I did get one YES for
>> pps during configure, but that didn't seem to be enough, because when
>> I load ntpd I get messages in /var/log/messages stating that the
>> ppsapi is unusable. :-(
>>
>> So my question to the list is: Does anyone have recent experience in
>> making ntpd + pps work on FreeBSD?
>>
>> Terje
>> PS. The reason I'm doing this is because the old server crashed, so I
>> can't simply copy all the conf files from that one. :-(
>>
>
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- <Terje at tmsw.no>
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