[189238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Wed May 11 21:46:21 2016
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 20:46:18 -0500
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: Jon Meek <meekjt@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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maybe try with an odroid?
On May 11, 2016 8:45 PM, "Jon Meek" <meekjt@gmail.com> wrote:
> A note on using a Raspberry Pi as a NTP server. In my limited home lab
> testing the RPi server had enough instability that Internet time sources
> were always preferred by my workstation after ntpd had been running for a
> while. Presumably this was due to the RPi's clock frequency drifting. At
> some point I will look at it again.
>
> If you do want to build your own Stratum 1 server you might want to glance
> at:
>
> https://github.com/meekj/ntp/blob/master/jon_meek_ntp_poster2009a.pdf
>
> and the references there.
>
> I had hoped to use the very low cost RPi Stratum 1 servers at $DAY_JOB, but
> the test device was clearly not up to the job. At some point I hope to
> revisit this and do some more testing like I did for that poster. I'll add
> in a CDMA server and a dedicated WWVB receiver.
>
> Jon
>
