NTP PARSE clock data formats

The parse driver currently supports several clocks with different query mechanisms. In order for you to find a sample that might be similar to a clock you might want to integrate into parse I'll sum up the major features of the clocks (this information is distributed in the parse/clk_*.c and ntpd/refclock_parse.c files).

Last update: 21-Oct-2010 23:44 UTC


Meinberg clocks

Meinberg: start=<STX>, end=<ETX>, sync on start
      pattern="\2D:  .  .  ;T: ;U:  .  .  ;    \3"
      pattern="\2  .  .  ;  ;   :  :  ;        \3"
      pattern="\2  .  .  ;  ;   :  :  ;    :  ;        ;   .         .       "

Meinberg is a German manufacturer of time code receivers. Those clocks have a pretty common output format in the stock version. In order to support NTP Meinberg was so kind to produce some special versions of the firmware for the use with NTP. So, if you are going to use a Meinberg clock please ask whether there is a special Uni Erlangen version. You can reach