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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:12:44 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SD card -image- for the beaglebone
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> 
> Well, besides running a little roll-your-own clock ensemble system, a
> more mundane use of multiple PPS inputs would be simple failover for
> ntpd.  At least, I think in theory it should work fine to configure ntpd
> with multiple refclocks and if one goes bad it can continue with others.

Hmmm… I think I would instead have multiple
BeagleBones, each with a single PPS input and
each acting as an independent NTP master.

If one goes bad, the NTP clients will fail over
to use another master.

Tim



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