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This document provides an overview of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) features supported by the SmartEdge® router and describes the tasks performed to configure, monitor, and administer NTP. This document also provides NTP configuration examples.
NTP exchanges timekeeping information between servers and clients through the Internet to synchronize clocks. NTP makes estimates based on several variables, including network delay, dispersion of packet exchanges, and clock offset. Extremely reliable sources, such as radio clocks and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite timing receivers, act as primary servers. Company or campus servers can act as secondary time servers. To reduce overhead, secondary servers distribute time to attached local hosts.
The SmartEdge router supports NTP as described in RFC 1305, Network Time Protocol. Although the default version is version 3, the SmartEdge router also supports NTP versions 1 and 2. On a SmartEdge router, NTP operates in client mode only. The SmartEdge router can be synchronized by a remote NTP server, but the remote server cannot be synchronized by the SmartEdge router.
To configure NTP, perform the tasks described in the following sections.
To configure the NTP server IP address, perform the task described in Table 1.
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Task |
Root Command |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Configure the SmartEdge router to synchronize to a remote NTP server. |
Enter this command in global configuration mode. |
To configure NTP peer associations, perform the task described in Table 2.
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Task |
Root Command |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Configure the peer association for symmetric synchronization of the SmartEdge router time and remote NTP peer time. |
Enter this command in global configuration mode. |
To configure the SmartEdge router to slowly adjust its local clock rate to compensate for differences with a remote NTP clock source, perform the tasks described in Table 3.
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Task |
Root Command |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Access NTP configuration mode. |
Enter this command in global configuration mode. | |
Configure slowsync. |
Enter this command in NTP configuration mode. |
To monitor, troubleshoot, and administer NTP features, perform the NTP operations tasks described in Table 4. Enter the debug command in exec mode; enter the show commands in any mode.
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Task |
Command |
|---|---|
Enable the generation of NTP debug messages. |
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Display the current NTP configuration. |
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Display current associations with remote NTP servers and list daemon statistics for those servers. |
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Display current NTP parameter settings and synchronization status. |
The following example shows how to configure the NTP client on the SmartEdge router to synchronize with a remote NTP server at IP address 10.1.1.1:
[local]Redback(config)#ntp server 10.1.1.1
The following commands configure the NTP client on the SmartEdge router to use multiple remote NTP servers as synchronization sources. In this case, the preferred server is at IP address, 20.1.1.1. Symmetric synchronization is also enabled, using the NTP peer with IP address, 155.53.32.75:
[local]Redback#config [local]Redback(config)#ntp server 10.1.1.1 [local]Redback(config)#ntp server 20.1.1.1 prefer [local]Redback(config)#ntp peer 155.53.32.75