[time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

Robert Vassar rvassar at rob-vassar.com
Mon Mar 17 12:03:41 EDT 2008


On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Magne Mæhre wrote:

> Robert Vassar wrote:
>>
>> Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's.  You might
>> want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL
>> is OSI approved.  For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a
>> 3.x derived NTP daemon.  I know the maintainer.  It's been a few
>> years since I pestered him about moving to 4.x, I should ask again.
>> It's likely too late to make such a change for "Solaris 11", or
>> whatever OpenSolairs/SXDE will be called when "productized".
>
> Brian Utterback is working on getting a NTP v.4 beta into
> OpenSolaris , but from the latest I heard there are still a couple
> of bugs to be sorted out.


Ahhh... Ok.  I did not know this.  I'll have to see what I can do to  
help.  Thanks!


Rob

>
> See:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=50953&tstart=0
>
> for details..
>
> OpenSolaris NTP project:
>   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ntp/
>
>
> --Magne
>
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