[time-nuts] Lowest Power NTP Server

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Sun Dec 1 17:49:37 UTC 2019


Hi

So something like one of the many ESP32 based boards?

Of course when it comes to the “code from scratch” part there is the problem that I’m 
pretty (most would say very …)  lazy :) :) :)

Bob

> On Dec 1, 2019, at 12:29 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> --------
> 
> You can do better than RPi, since a NTP server basically
> only needs to understand two packets:  IP/UDP at port 123
> and ARP packets.
> 
> There are WiFi enabled microcontrollers that could be taught how
> to do that, but you'd have to write up your NTP daemon from scratch
> which is not hard when you do not have to do the "sync clock from
> remote servers" part.
> 
> 
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