[time-nuts] GPS NTP servers

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Wed Sep 1 16:23:40 UTC 2010


Hi

I have had great luck running the net4501 boards as NTP servers. As
previously discussed, they have some very real advantages over the 5501's in
this application. The onboard timing and PHK's code to use it really does
help. 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Attila Kinali
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:11 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS NTP servers

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:55:17 -0700 (PDT)
Stanley Reynolds <stanley_reynolds at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would use a surplus thunderbolt vs the HP Z3801A GPS disciplined
oscillator 
> for cost reasons but would check to make sure a working driver exist for
which 
> ever gps receiver is connected to the RS232 port. Thunderbolt would feed
the 
> clock-block in either case. This is on my list to do but I'm not having
much 
> luck winning a bid on the net4501.

I just recently bought a net5501 instead of the Alix boards i usually
get because i needed 3 NICs and a PCI slot. I was astonished how
badly designed the device is compared to what PC Engines delivers.
Not to mention the total lack of documentation. The only docu on the
net5501 is a user written wiki page that is refernced by soekris
but otherwise totally ignored and thus has more holes than documented
places (compare this to full schematics for all Alix boards).

I'm not going to talk about what i think about the case they sell
as i think that this kind of profanity has no place on this mailinglist.
I'm just saying this much: If you think you can run this without a fan,
then you are wrong.

			Attila Kinali
-- 
If you want to walk fast, walk alone.
If you want to walk far, walk together.
		-- African proverb

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