RE: [Gumstix-users] NTP time servers

[Marc B. <ma...@ge...>]

Craig said:
> Isnt there simply a place where I can set ntpdate to use something 
> else ?

Hmm; in that case I would have thought the network is "available"  
when the "up" lines get invoked from /etc/network/interfaces.  The reason
that stuff generally doesn't work in "up" lines which requires actually
talking on the newly brought-up interface is that the link layer is up, but
DHCP hasn't set up the IP layer yet.  Maybe there's some odd delay happening
on the host side, and what you need is to have a line like:

iface usb0 inet static
      # All your static config stuff here
      up sleep 10;ntpdate 1.pool.ntp.org



That way you let the host take 10 seconds to stabilize things and be ready
to swap IP packets before you try talking.

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I was thinking about the same thing ... that will probably freeze the boot
process for 10 seconds though, right ?