[ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Tue Jun 23 12:28:40 UTC 2009


On 2009-06-23, W. eWatson <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Martin Burnicki wrote:
>
> [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 35 lines snipped |=---]

http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

> It looks like pulling the preempt, did the trick. It "looks" like the
> two sources, NTP and my Radio Shack atomic clock, are very close. Too
> bad one of them doesn't beep every five seconds.

Two time sources is the worst possible NTP configuration you can use.

> Is there a primer for NTP?

http://www.ntp.org/documentation.html
http://support.ntp.org
http://doc.ntp.org

> I have a number of colleagues who are working with the same equipment
> and software, but are operaing with Linux or Apple. Does some
> implementation like Meinberg exist for them?

Meinberg has packaged the NTP Reference Implementation from
http://www.ntp.org

> Where would they find it?

If they are using an OS with a decent package management system they
should be able to install NTP using those tools. Here are some, although
certainly not all, specific URLs for pre-packaged versions of NTP:

Debian:
http://packages.debian.org/ntp

Ubuntu:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ntp

Slackware:
http://packages.slackware.it/search.php?v=current&t=1&q=ntp

RPM based OSes (e.g. Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, Yellow Dog, etc.):
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ntp

FreeBSD:
http://www.freshports.org/net/ntp/
http://www.freshports.org/net/ntp-devel/

OSX:
open OSX's Date and Time system preferences (NTP is apparently
pre-installed on OSX)

The NTP Reference Implementation distribution is available as source
code from:

http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html
http://support.ntp.org/download
http://archive.ntp.org

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/




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