From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 12:35:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C79837B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.74.204]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9L000K56UEKZ@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:13:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:26:39 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Hooking a Radio (Atomic) Clock to FreeBSD? To: Rob Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , hawk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AA001FE.4DA0CDB6@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <200102280005.QAA2360403@meer.meer.net> <3A9D83C4.70F1675B@home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG www.datum.com has several products which you might find usable. I haven't researched this for a few years; last time I evaluated clocks, it was for Hambrecht & Quist, two or three years ago, but there were a plethora of products available. Heathkit had a product available back in the late 1980s, when I was working for Ampex R&D; but I'm not sure if Heathkit is in business any more, as such ... -- richard Rob wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message