[ntp:questions] Re: Everything works! -- but am I doing more than I need to?
Terje Mathisen
terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Wed Nov 26 11:07:24 UTC 2003
John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> Here's the operative part of my /etc/ntp.conf file:
>
> pps /dev/oncore.pps.0 assert hardpps
> server 127.127.30.0 prefer
> fudge 127.127.30.0 flag3 1
> server 127.127.22.0
>
> And here's what ntpq -p shows:
>
> +GPS_ONCORE(0) .GPS. 0 l 5 16 377 0.000
> 0.000 0.001
> oPPS(0) .PPS. 0 l 13 64 377 0.000
> 0.003 0.003
>
> My question is how many of those lines in /etc/ntp.conf are needed.
> I've seen references that say that the Oncore driver "handles all the
> PPS stuff" but without the "server 127.127.22.0" line, I never got the
> PPS driver to appear in the ntpq -p output.
That's strange, since I've nver even tried to use the PPS signal both
for ONCORE and ATOM at the same time. I didn't even believe it would
work. :-)
Terje
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