From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 22:43:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17986 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17965 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA07592; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:13:42 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970917151342.00824@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:13:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Joerg Wunsch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel clock runs inaccurately References: <199709080124.JAA14004@tao.sinanet.com.tw> <19970908081010.DS04250@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709102025.WAA02815@bitbox.follo.net> <19970911064231.JG62790@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709170431.GAA29657@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709170431.GAA29657@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 06:31:55AM +0200 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 06:31:55AM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: >> >> Too expensive still. The dialup itself is ISDN, so the setup time is >> ~ 2 seconds or less, but having an xntpd calling each 5 or 15 minutes >> would greatly increase our phone and Internet costs. > > BTW: What kind of setup are you running to get <2s setup time? I'm > consistently ending up at 4-5s, having tried with different external > TAs, ISDN-adapters, PPP-implementations and portmasters. Call setup time is usually outside your control. It depends on the public network. When I lived in Germany, setup time was closer to 1 second than 2. Greg