"Jed S. Baer" wrote: [...] > Depending upon the above, maybe I should start the ntp daemon in my > ppp/ip-up.local and stop it in my ppp/ip-down.local scripts? Or is there > just no reason to be that strange? There's a program called chronyd that is designed to handle intermittent links better than ntpd does: http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/chrony/ Dave