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>=20
> 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=85 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