[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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