Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-25 Thread Charles Polisher
On Dec 24, 2012 at 03:26:02PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > Without any special requirements, why don't you just run > software? If everything in the network is in-sync with each > other, +/- a couple of seconds, is that good enough? Like I > said, this is what I do - I haven't yet

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: Jonathan [mailto:lo...@redigloo.org] > > No special requirements, and for > many > years NTP has run happily on our mail gateways. Without any special requirements, why don't you just run software? If everything in the network is in-sync with each other, +/- a couple of seconds, is t

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-24 Thread Jonathan
On 19/12/12 14:16, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted RFC1918

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan > > For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail > gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted > RFC1918 networks. We are planning to virtualise t

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-18 Thread Matthew Welch
I have had great success with the common ** Large Time Server Vendor**. I have used several of their devices from network gear to their basic NTP boxes. I think they even have a basic NTP box now that is fairly reasonable. Have lost GPS on the unit and it still kept ticking with failover to stratum

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-18 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
On 12/18/12 17:25, Jonathan wrote: Hi, For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted RFC1918 networks. We are planning to virtualise those mail gateways, and so we need to find a new home for NTP. I am

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-18 Thread Doug Hughes
Get a wcdma or gms stratum one. It will work wherever your cell works and should be cheaper than 3 separate boxes, also less to manage Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Jonathan To: tech@lists.lopsa.org Sent: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 8:34 PM Subject: [lopsa-tech] NTP

[lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-18 Thread Jonathan
Hi, For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted RFC1918 networks. We are planning to virtualise those mail gateways, and so we need to find a new home for NTP. I am aware that we could purchase