[ILUG] smoothwall

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:21, olearypj at rte.ie wrote:
> Hi,
>     I've just finished installing Smoothwall on an old P11 pc & was
> wondering if there was a way of using it as an ntp server also for the
> clients, or would it be a better idea to have each client access an
> external ntp server as it boots up. any help or suggestions would be

Yes, run ntpd on your firewall, and point it to ntp.pool.org, and point your 
clients to it. IF you have Windows clients, they may not work with ntp, well 
they wouldn't work last time I tried anyway.

> appreciated. BTW, i'm thinking of signing up for the Esat/BT broadband next
> week maybe, if I can get Eircom to fix the line so it passes whatever test
> it has failed.
>
> Thanks,
>         Pat
>
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