10.2: ntp update breaks DCF77 clock

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Sat Aug 15 19:45:07 UTC 2015


Michael B. Eichorn:

> Dunno as to what happened with ntp or how to fix it, but there are a
> couple other ntp soultions in ports that might work. 
> 
> NTP is known to be very complex, IIRC phk@ is being paid by the Linux
> Foundation to write a replacement, ntimed.

At this time, ntimed is an NTP client only.  No server, no support
for reference clocks.  It's a fragment, really.

> Another option is OpenNTPD from OpenBSD, the portable version of this is
> in ports as well.

OpenNTPD does not support any reference clocks on FreeBSD since
there is no equivalent to OpenBSD's sensors framework.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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