[Soekris] Soekris & NTP

Bob Camp soekris at cq.nu
Thu Jun 21 02:23:08 UTC 2007


Hi

... or you could put a good low profile OCXO in as the frequency  
standard :)

As far as I can tell you can get up to several hundred clients and  
still have a lightly loaded net4501. With 30 to 40 clients "top"  
shows almost no load at all (< < 1%).

Bob Camp


On Jun 20, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <38C0B262-97E1-4DDB-AAB3-B1A8CBEBADF3 at nostrum.com>,  
> David Duchscher
> writes:
>
>> I am looking at using a Soekris unit for NTP and was wondering if
>> people have a recommendation for which board to use?  Traffic will be
>> low, no encryption.  I was looking at the 4801 as I see netgate.com
>> has a rack mount case for it but that is just a nicety and not
>> requiredment.  GPS clock we are looking at using is the GPS 17HVS.
>> Any comments, suggestions, pointers, etc would be greatly  
>> appreciated.
>
> Go for the 4501, you can get much better precision if you throw
> a GPS and possibly a good X-tal after it.
>
> John wrote up my design here:
>
> 	http://www.febo.com/pages/soekris/
>
>
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