From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 2 8:42:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030AF14CB4 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 08:42:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08600; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:42:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Karl Denninger Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 10:37:32 CST." <20000102103732.A23004@Denninger.Net> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 17:42:24 +0100 Message-ID: <8598.946831344@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000102103732.A23004@Denninger.Net>, Karl Denninger writes: >On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 04:55:44PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >BTW, speaking of which, does anyone know of a reasonably-cheap GPS receiver >> >that (1) has an external-able antenna that will work with somewhere between >> >50 and 100 feet of lead, and (2) has the appropriate pps outputs and such >> >so it can be used for this? >> >> I will (as always) recommend the Motorola Oncore UT+. If you buy it >> from syngergy-gps it comes mounted in their nice box and the cable >> has the PPS on DCD and is ready to plug into a serial port. I paid >> $605.73 for the one I'm delivering to the Danish Internet eXchange >> point, that included antenna and 15m of cable. > >That's EXPENSIVE. > >Common handheld GPS units with NEMA outputs on them are well under $200 >these days! Common handheld GPS units are pointless as NTP refclocks because they lack (a decent) PPS output. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message