From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 7:40:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laker.net (laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14EE814F5E for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-fll-139.laker.net [205.245.75.39]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.0-LAKERNET-We-do-not-relay) with SMTP id KAA16447 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:40:29 -0400 Message-Id: <199907081440.KAA16447@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:39:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Time sync Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been messing with this for a couple days and have read the man pages for xntpd, ntpdate, timed, etc. to no avail. Here's what I want to do... I have a 486/66 running FreeBSD 2.2.8 acting as an Internet gateway for my home network. The Internet connection is "dial-on-demand" thru a 56K modem. I want to know the "best" method to use to sync my 486 box via the Internet, and I want it to act as a time server to my local machines. I have been using ntpdate manually on occasion to sync time from otc1.psu.edu. But I don't know how to make the box a time server for my local net. I've tried xntpd, but then it takes the port and prevents ntpdate from running. And I still couldn't get it to serve time to a local FreeBSD box running 3.2. This is just a home network and time isn't critical, but I want to sync time from the Net, maybe once a day or once a week, but serve time to local machines any time they request it. help... cc me please, I unsubscribed from the list due to heavy traffic. Steve Friedrich Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message