[ntp:questions] Problems syncing to a reference clock
The Doctor
doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Tue Sep 23 20:47:55 UTC 2008
In article <C584C892-6D07-4EF8-A6E1-E7EB8961B85D at madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca>,
Sutherland Russell <russ at madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>I have an older PC running BSDI 3.01 which has an internal ISA based
>GPS TrueTime clock:
>
># uname -a
>BSD/OS tickhaus.utoronto.ca 3.1 BSDI BSD/OS 3.1 Kernel #2: Sun Aug 8
>19:31:21 CDT 1999 etc.
># dmesg | grep -i true
>gpspc0 at isa0 iobase 0x320: TrueTime Model 560-5500 GPS-PC Card
>
>I am running xntpd version 3-5 and there seems to be a problem syncing
>to the
>reference clock. The daemon can sync to other time servers.
>
># xntpdc -c peers
> remote local st poll reach delay offset disp
>=======================================================================
>=128.100.aaa.bbb 128.100.ccc.ddd 1 64 1 0.00879 0.103917 15.8750
>=GPS_PC(0) 5.0.0.0 0 64 0 0.00000 0.000000 16.0000
>
>Here is what ntp.conf looks like:
>
>
># cat /etc/ntp.conf
>
>server 128.100.aaa.bbb
>server 127.127.27.0
>
>driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
>
>restrict default ignore
>restrict 127.0.0.1
>restrict 127.127.27.0
>restrict 128.100.aaa.bbb
>
>
>
>The GPS part seems fine:
>
># gpstest
>*** GPSPCSTATUS ***
>Hardware register = 0xFFFC
>Antenna OK
>Error register = 0x00
>Configuration register = 0x1107
>Sync-Gen Mode
>Sync to GPS
>Local Offset is: 00:00
>DST start day is: 00-00
>DST stop day is: 00-00
>Sync-gen Offset (prop delay) is: 0 microsecs
>Output code is: IRIG-B
>Rate output is: 1 pps
>*** GPSPCREADTIME ***
>2028:129:15:59:20.370261 Locked to GPS
>*** GPSPCSIGLEVEL ***
>SAT03 = 11.45
>SAT23 = 9.83
>SAT16 = 11.93
>SAT06 = 9.00
>SAT19 = 4.68
>SAT13 = 7.46
>*** GPSPCPOSITION ***
>Latitude: xx degrees 9 minutes 40.0 seconds N
>Longitude: yy degrees 23 minutes 53.7 seconds W
>Altitude: +00zz.1 meters
>
>
>Here is some debugging output:
>
># xntpdc -c "clkbug 127.127.27.0"
>clock address: 127.127.27.0
>values: 8
> 0 129 16 10
> 47 0 3408134400 0
>times: 3
> 0.000000 00:000:00:00:00.0003431088647.018523
>08:265:16:10:47.018
> 0.000000
>
># xntpdc -c "clockstats 127.127.27.0"
>***Command `clockstats' unknown
>bash# xntpdc -c "clockstat 127.127.27.0"
>clock address: 127.127.27.0
>clock type: TrueTime GPS-PC Interface (27)
>last event: 6
>current status: 6
>number of polls: 3
>no response to poll: 0
>bad format responses: 0
>bad data responses: 3
>running time: 176
>fudge time 1: 0.000000
>fudge time 2: 0.000000
>stratum: 0
>reference ID: GPS
>fudge flags: 0x0
>
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>---
>Russell P. Sutherland Email: russ @ madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca
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>University of Toronto Fax: +1.416.978.6620
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Can you update this to the lastest version of ntpd?
I still used 4.3.1 and no problems.
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