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- From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au (Christopher JS Vance)
- Subject: Re: xntpd and timed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.224131.567@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Originator: cjsv@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Computer Science, University College, UNSW/ADFA, Canberra, Australia
- References: <1992Dec17.145434.199386@ipgaix.unipg.it> <1992Dec18.175438.16954@Arco.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41:31 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Dec18.175438.16954@Arco.COM> Matt Mannhardt <lasmtm@Arco.COM> writes:
- | >We are currently using <timed> on our (still little,
- | >but growing) network. We are planning to start to use
- | >xntpd.
- | >
- | >May I suppose that I have to stop timed on all the machines
- | >where I'm going to start xntpd? May they coexist in some way?
- |
- | I have been looking into this question myself because of being in a
- | sum-what
- | similar position and I am interested in other peoples experiences. We
- | have a
-
- [ etc. ]
-
- | The end result is that I'll probably run a mix of 'timed' and 'xntp' with
- | new installs
- | going to 'xntp' (by adding the appropiate code to our "localization
- | scripts" that we
- | run for new installs) and leaving the current 'timed' clients as they are
- | till their
- | next OS upgrade.
- |
- | Comments anyone?
-
- We use both ntpd (v1) and timed on a mixed network (Sun, Pyramid,
- Convex, Apollo, DEC). Pyramid and Apollo ship timed, Sun ships
- nothing, I'm not sure what we did to the DEC. We compiled and run
- ntpd on a small number of Suns, each with some contact off-campus and
- communicating with each other on-campus. Each ntpd machine is also a
- potential timed master (started with -M option). But we compiled for
- these machines a version of timed that does not alter the master's
- clock. So on these machines, ntp makes the decisions. The other
- machines, which don't run ntpd, all run timed in slave mode. It seems
- to work well. Part of the reason for doing this was that ntpd
- required a configuration file on each host; I should check out a newer
- version of xntp which apparently does not require this.
-
- -- Christopher
-