[ntp:questions] Re: ntp client over satellite and no CMOS battery

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Sep 10 23:10:29 UTC 2005


At 5:45 PM -0400 2005-09-10, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

>                                                                         Some
>  hardware and software can do this very well indeed.  Others; e.g. Windows
>  and Linux do not do nearly so well.

	Linux can do fine, assuming the hardware is good, and the 
OS/software configuration is good.  More recent versions of Linux 
have tended to have some kernel issues that require rebuilding with 
different options, if you want to be able to keep good time.  But 
once that is done, you should be okay.

	Unfortunately, Windows does not give you such an option, and 
unless the server is pretty much totally unloaded and dedicated to 
running nothing but NTP, you are likely to suffer some accuracy 
problems.

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