From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 17 00:36:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA26053 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA26045 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA20165; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709170735.AAA20165@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Greg Lehey cc: Eivind Eklund , Joerg Wunsch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel clock runs inaccurately In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:13:42 +0930." <19970917151342.00824@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:35:53 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I guess it depens on your ISDN switch it used to take me 20ms now is probably closer to a second --- my guess is that PacBell did an upgrade 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Greg Lehey : > 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 >