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Summary

UNIX Name:        msntp
Website:          ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/sources/DST/msntp
Latest version:   1.6 - 2005-11-25


Description

A straightforward SNTP daemon/utility


Common Problems

Not the brightest of applications, msntp requires the presence of a DNS server even when provided an IP address of a NTP server. If an invalid or no server is setup the following error message will appear.

msntp: unable to locate IP/address/number
msntp: Unknown error: 0


Build Instructions

# ./build_msntp.sh


Size Details

FreeBSD 6.1, GCC 3.4.4, recommended compile options.

component           size                stripped size       description
msntp               48,118              42,708              vanilla
                    38,686              33,428              i386
                    38,686              33,428              i486
                    39,550              34,292              pentium
                    39,550              34,292              pentium-mmx
                    46,705              41,492              pentiumpro
                    38,814              33,556              pentium2
                    46,705              41,492              celeron-mendocino
                    46,769              41,556              pentium3
                    46,929              41,716              pentium-m
                    46,010              40,820              pentium4
                    46,010              40,820              pentium4-prescott
                    46,010              40,820              pentium-nocona
                    39,550              34,292              via-c3
                    45,521              40,308              transmeta
                    43,633              38,420              k6
                    43,633              38,420              k6-2
                    43,633              38,420              k6-3
                    46,417              41,204              athlon
                    46,417              41,204              athlon-tbird
                    46,481              41,268              athlon-4
                    46,481              41,268              athlon-xp
                    46,481              41,268              athlon-mp
                    46,481              41,268              athlon64
                    46,481              41,268              opteron
                    46,641              41,428              turion64
                    

Alternatives

ntpd : The Network Time Protocol Distribution (431,724 bytes)

openntpd : OpenBSD's Network Time Protocol daemon (36,336 bytes)


Justification

A simple client less complicated than NTP. OpenNTP is less accurate than NTP. For m0n0wall & pfSense NTP does not perform well do to the high number of interrupts occuring. msntp can act act as a server but not with Windows XP apparently.

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