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On Friday 22 September 2006 14:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:26:20 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > For a laptop . . . |
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> > |
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> > What do/would you use and why? |
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> ntp assumes a permanent connection, so chrony is probably a better |
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> solution. I thin it was originally intended for dialup use, but is well |
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> suited to a laptop with an intermittent Internet connection. |
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> |
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> I should use it on mine, but never bothered to set it up, I still use |
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> rdate run from the network postup() script. |
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Hmm, for some reason my ISP's ntp server does not work with my Gentoo (it |
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works with WinXP): |
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22:23:52.518518 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP |
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(17), length: 28) 192.168.0.5.32788 > ntp.metronet.co.uk.time: UDP, length 0 |
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22:23:52.518830 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38401, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: |
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UDP (17), length: 72) 192.168.0.5.32789 > router.domain: 65070+[|domain] |
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22:23:52.533571 IP (tos 0xa0, ttl 60, id 49836, offset 0, flags [none], |
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proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) ntp.metronet.co.uk > 192.168.0.5: ICMP |
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ntp.metronet.co.uk udp port time unreachable, length 36 |
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IP (tos 0x40, ttl 60, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), |
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length: 28) 192.168.0.5.32788 > ntp.metronet.co.uk.time: [|udp] |
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What's this "port time unreachable" message - the rdate command times out of |
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course. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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