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

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Sep 7 21:13:13 UTC 2005


At 5:06 PM -0400 2005-09-07, Steve Kostecke wrote:

>>  Free BSD will get the job done.   So will Solaris (also free these
>>  days).  Linux and Windows are poor choices for this application as both
>>  have a tendency to lose clock interrupts.
>
>  Linux will "get the job done" on the right hardware.

	There are OS and hardware configuration issues that are common to 
all these platforms.  On the right hardware, with the right OS 
configuration, any of these OSes should be adequate for most purposes.

	They will at least get you down into the millisecond range for 
accuracy, assuming you have good low-latency network connectivity to 
an adequate number of good quality upstream time servers.

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