[c-nsp] NTP Servers

[kmedcalf at dessus.com (Keith Medcalf)]

> those.  The beauty of most appliances is that they're easy to manage.  If it
> fails, download the latest ISO from company, burn it, boot appliance,
> restore it and you're back in business in an hour or so.  Keep in mind a
> linux kernel running just ntpd and some management necessities like ssh and
> http is pretty reliable.  Hardly any I/O, just a simple function it does.

http is a frilly pink bauble, not a management necessity.

Very basic linux with no frilly bauble's, ntpd, sshd, and vi.  
Supports thousands of clients on a $10 80286 with 640KB RAM booting from a floppy.
Add $1000 and you can get the same thing as an "appliance".

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