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- From: szeliga@soils.umn.edu (Tim Szeliga - NWS)
- Subject: HP9000 ntp - Do I Need it?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.151722.14209@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Summary: Need to have or Nice to have?
- Keywords: ntp
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- Organization: University of Minnesota
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:17:22 GMT
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- I've downloaded the xntp+hp-1.30 code from an HP archive
- for my HP 9000. I guess I'm a little unclear on the big picture.
- There are two HP 9000's and 3 RS6000's here as well as a dozen PC's
- and OS/2 machines. Do I compile ntp for each of the workstations
- and get them to lock onto one station acting as the standard?
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- My second question is I also have a Heath World's Most Accurate Clock,
- picking up WWV's signal from Boulder. We have an RS-232 port on the
- clock that continually updates at 2400 baud. We feed it into a PC
- COM2 and use the signal to adjust the time for the PC driving the
- satellite tracking system.
- 1. Can ntp use the output of WMAC, as two recent posters have asked?
- 2. If I got an authoritative time on the workstation, could the WS
- output the signal to the PC?
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- Is this program specifically for getting your local systems in sync or
- can you connect thru the Internet to NIST.GOV or utoronto.edu or
- udel or some stratum 1 site to get an authoritative time-code?
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- Lastly, is this really necessary for our site? We definitely need a
- good timecode to drive the satellite dish from the PC. We adjust
- the time manually to the readout of WMAC occaisionally. It doesn't
- really matter for our applications that the time stamps are correct.
- Is this a "nice-to-have" rather than a "need-to-have" for us?
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- I'd appreciate any comments.
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- Tim Szeliga tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov
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