Your suggestion seems to be completely workable.

Thanks Dave.

 

Firm.

 

 

Is it absolutely essential that these computers be on a physically separated network? It seems like you could run these computers behind a firewall/NAT/proxy/whatever that only allows UDP 123 outbound and nothing inbound which would get the job done without that added hardware costs of an atomic clock. So long as the management options are only accessible from behind this border device, the security risk should be effectively zero.

 

 

We have a few servers that we would like to keep off the network <no physical path to the outside world) but would like to sync time somehow.  We are thinking about an Atomic Time Clock (getting its time from radio signal) that’s equipped with an Ethernet port and an NTP server.

Any comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

 

Firmin Charlot, ITIL, MCSE, A+, Information Systems Manager

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