In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post.
Here is a full shot of the rack in my house. Its in a centrally located
Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this
It’s for making your computers clocks be very, very close to each other. Not milliseconds close, but nano seconds. That is more important than one might think, especially for networks.
I’m going to have something similar at home at some point, just need to make a few more cable runs so one GPS can see the sky (= more accurate)
What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?
After all, it just tells time
Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers
It’s for making your computers clocks be very, very close to each other. Not milliseconds close, but nano seconds. That is more important than one might think, especially for networks.
I’m going to have something similar at home at some point, just need to make a few more cable runs so one GPS can see the sky (= more accurate)