From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 6 18:11: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2118814CB4 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:11:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id SAA13259; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA09350; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:10:25 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA11514; Tue, 6 Jul 99 18:10:23 PDT Message-Id: <3782A8FF.97708CFF@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:10:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need a clock for NTP References: <19990705230337.A33121@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <3782488A.6F205377@softweyr.com> <19990706203853.A71421@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Klemm wrote: > > Thanks ! > > Will check it out. BTW, I read in some articels, that the > receivers differ for example in the accuracy. Some poll only > in minute intervalls, since other do it more often. > > What regarding that ? > > BTW, what do you think about SURE RPC-Modul DCF-77 from: > http://www.linum.de/dcf77/funkuhrempfaenger.htm > > This device gets the power to work from the serial interface. > I hate changing batteries ;-) It costs about $45. The prices are certainly great. I wish they had an english web page. Radio clocks in general work pretty well as long as you're not looking for a way to set clocks after power failures; they take a day or two to become really accurate. For plugging into a server and leaving for long, reliable run-times, they should work great. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message