[Soekris] Clock instability and network adapters

[Tim Jakobsen]

> It's a standard option of ntpd.  And I would not want to be making a
> 12-second adjustment using it.
>
> Better to find/fix the underlying problem.
>
> There may be information on this at http://support.ntp.org/Support .
>
> I did not specifically reference the Troublsshooting NTP section,
> because I am not certain that a more basic problem (like OS or NTP
> configuration) should not be considered first.

I do not think this is a configuration issue. I have several servers
running NetBSD that does not show this kind of behaviour. It only happens
on the 5501.

I seem to remember having heard that NTP was patched on FreeBSD with
regards to the 5501. Is this true? Perhaps something in NTP needs patching
in order to work with the 5501 on NetBSD?
Or could this indeed still be a hardware problem?

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Regards.,
 Tim