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Date:      Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:08:27 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SD card -image- for the beaglebone
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On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>>=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.
>=20
> Hmmm=85 I think I would instead have multiple
> BeagleBones, each with a single PPS input and
> each acting as an independent NTP master.
>=20
> If one goes bad, the NTP clients will fail over
> to use another master.

That matches what I've had the best experience with ntpd...=



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