scoggin@delmarva.delmarva.COM (John Scoggin) (04/14/91)
Has anyone out there ported xntp for OS/2? I have an 8-bit ISA board for a PC with an IRIG-B time code input, which I can attach to a GPS receiver for a master time source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John K. Scoggin, Jr. Supervisor, Network Operations Phone: (302) 451-5200 Delmarva Power & Light Company Fax: (302) 451-5321 500 N. Wakefield Drive Email: scoggin@delmarva.com Newark, DE 19714-6066 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon load of magnetic tapes screaming down the interstate!"
Shaw@udel.edu (04/14/91)
John, I may have sent a message to one of your workers (a cis student here?) in which I discussed our attempts to port ntp to dos. OS/2 has a better chance because of its partial ability in multitasking but it still seems to me that the full xntp that is on large network hosts is not going to go on a pc. xntp as far as I know has not been ported to any pc environment. As I said in the recent message I think that a simple ntp deamon could be developed for the pc, but it would have to be developed from scratch and the protocal discription. We attempted to start such a project but very few want to work on it as its relative usefullness to us started looking rather dim dispite that someone may be able to use such a thing somewhere. My suggestion for you by the discription I got (if its the same thing) is to consider whether a simpler deamon might work if you are working only on a group of pc's and taking the data from your time reciever as a reference. See if a few lines of code might screw things together in an acceptable way without so much bother. Mark