[ale] OT: question on router

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 22:56:13 EDT 2014


On 06/25/2014 04:48 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2014-06-24 20:35, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> I have an ASUS router RT-AC66U set up in wireless router mode which is
>> the default. This connected via the WAN port to the Comcast/Xfinity
>> Modem,Router,AP through the first LAN port. Would this configuration
>> cause NTP not to work on the ASUS router? NTP seems to be working fine
>> on my Linux box connected to the first LAN port on the ASUS. I found a
>> thread on SmallNetBuilder forum that seems to indicate that a setup
>> similar to this won't work, but the OP's description seemed a bit
>> sketchy, so I'm not sure if it is the same thing that I'm experiencing.
>>
>> Scott C
>>
> What are you experiencing?
>
> Most of the routers don't have battery backed RTCs so they have to have
> the clock set prior to ntpd starting up.  I run ntpd on my Linksys WRT
> operating as a router attached to my AT&T modem and it works fine if and
> only if ntpdate/ntpclient (distro dependent) is used prior to ntpd
> starting up.  If I start ntpd without using ntpdate/ntpclient, then ntpd
> tries to measure the initial clock offset, sees that it's absurd (some
> many hundreds of thousands of seconds), and aborts.
>
> My init.d script is modified to call ntpclient first, sleep and run ntpd
> which will remain calm after that.
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Just getting an error message indicating:

*Reminder: Your system time has not been synchronized with a NTP server.

It's currently running factory firmware so I'm not sure how I would go 
about doing what you do. I may have to get Tomato on it or at least I 
think it's called Merlon-WRT. It's hacked ASUS source code that at least 
has SSH installed, I'd rather not use telnet.

Scott C

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