ath@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU (Andrew Heybey) (05/15/91)
I am thinking about implementing NTP within Phil Karn's NOS for the PC. I looked at xntpd, and it appears what I would have to do is take the NTP protocol routines from it, and then write all the glue that goes between xntp and the machine. Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone have any better ideas on what to use as a starting point? I chose xntp because it uses fixed-point arithmetic. andrew
Shaw@udel.edu (05/15/91)
If you have been watching the ntp group you would see a few discourageing signs about ntp on the pc. The pc is meant mostly as a personal desktop machine with not much knowledge in its operating system and bios for talking to a network. That does not mean it is impossible to have ntp on a pc but it should be implemented in terms of using the protocal format for a new pc based time system. Not sure what the circumstances of your attempt are but attempting to port the xntp deamon to the pc environment if just for hardware reasons not to mention operating systems would boarder on insanity. We tried that and showed only that the next way to look is to making a demon for the pc from scratch which uses the ntp format when working on the net. No competent attempt has been made at that. If that is what you will be attempting then best of luck. Mark