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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:03:32 -0800
From: Rob <europax@home.com>
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To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc: hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Hooking a Radio (Atomic) Clock to FreeBSD?
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I've seen those Rubidium frequency standards on the surplus market for a
few $K.  Don't know what you need to convert it into a usable time
standard.  Rob.

"George V. Neville-Neil" wrote:
> 
> > >     I'm not sure where to ask this.  I want to hook a radio clock
> > > to a serial or other input on my FreBSD machine so I'll be a Stratum 2
> > > server.  Does anyone know where to get such a clock and what software
> > > I'd need?  I don't see anything in the PORTS collection after a quick
> > > scan.  Can xntp just talk to one of these thigns to serve time?
> >
> > It's not in the ports :)  Run /stand/sysinstall, configure, and
> > network services. Select ntpdate, and choose a server.
> 
> No, I don't want to choose a server I want to BE a server.  There for
> I need a device that gets the radio clock signal and converts it into
> something that FreeBSD can understand and then I need to set up
> something like xntp to propogate that.
> 
> Anyone else want to try?
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 
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