Driver strategy - we need to decide among incompatible goals

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Fri Aug 16 18:57:38 UTC 2019


Yo Achim!

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:41:35 +0200
Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller via devel writes:
> > Note that is does not appear to support TSIP binary, only NMEA?  
> 
> To quote the relevant part of the product description:
> 
> "Supports M12 binary protocol as well as identical footprint to the
> Motorola M12M device."

Except they do not bother to document what that is, so not useful in
any practical sense.

> > So physically an Oncore replacement, but not codewise.  
> 
> Exactly which part of the sentence quoted above is unclear to you?

Ditto.

> >> Their line of GPSDO are also quite interesting, but of course not
> >> exactly cheap.  
> >
> > And GPSDO not for NTP.  
> 
> I wouldn't have mentioned it if it wasn't relevant, go ahead and look
> the product pages up and maybe you'll see that you can easily build an
> NTP server with very respectable holdover capability.

Already been there, done that, my opinion stays the same.

RGDS
GARY
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