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

Al Dykes adykes at panix.com
Fri Sep 9 02:00:08 UTC 2005


In article <pete+usenet-5F22FB.20390007092005 at typhoon.sonic.net>,
Pete Stephenson  <pete+usenet at heypete.com> 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.
>

I've installed Linux on a soekris. It's popular as a 
proxy server for free wilress sites. I'm not recommending Linux but
the tricks to get it running may be similar and you may find links
to Freebsd soekris projects.   I think the soekris web site 
has lots of freebsd info, also. 

http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/


The soekris will make a fine ntp server and it will run apache at the
same time but the soekris models I'm familiar are roughy a 64MB
486/100.  Not much disk space, either. I've heard of heat problems
when people try to put a hard disk inside the box.

I say get an old pentium-I laptop with some battery life left. 



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