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

John Pettitt jpp at cloudview.com
Wed Sep 7 21:34:04 UTC 2005


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Pete Stephenson wrote:
> In article <U_ydnaOtxYcnzYLeRVn-sQ at comcast.com>,
>  "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> 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.
> 
> 
> That's not the first time I've seen recommendations for FreeBSD, and I 
> promised myself I'd run the "next" NTP server I run on that OS.
> 
> However, I need to get an el-cheapo PC to run FreeBSD -- my old Cobalt 
> RaQ3 finally bit the dust, and I was waiting for it to die before I'd 
> bother buying new hardware.
> 
> Any advice for a relatively inexpensive, small PC? Rackmount's fine, but 
> it'd be sitting on it's side on my floor, so a small tower would work 
> well too. It would be running the NTP server, and optionally an HTTP 
> server serving a small informational website about it. Power consumption 
> should be low, as my electric bill is already quite high. I'm looking 
> for something <$300, and I don't need a monitor, keyboard, or 
> anything...just the computer.
> 
> Cheers!
> 

Check out the sokeris boxes (I have two 4801's running one of which is
an S1 time server - they consume less than 15W each) - if you want
something a little bigger I also have a $350 eMachines Celeron box
that I got on closeout from Best buy (2.9ghz celeron, 512mb, 80 gb
disk, DVD + CD-RW for $350 not bad).  Pretty much any Pentium class
box will work will work as a time server (even down to old 133mhz
machines you can get for free).



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