NTP

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is defined in RFC 1305, Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation and Analysis. It allows for participating network nodes to keep time more accurately and maintain time in a synchronized manner between all participating network nodes.

NTP time elements include:

• Authentication-check

• Authentication-key

• Broadcastclient

• MDA-timestamp

• Multicastclient

• Server

CLI Syntax:

config>system>time
    ntp
        authentication-check 
        authentication-key key-id {key key} [hash | hash2] {type des | message-digest}
        broadcastclient [router router-name] {interface ip-int-name} [authenticate]
        mda-timestamp
        multicastclient [authenticate]
        server {ip-address | ipv6-address} [key-id key-id] [version version] [prefer]
        no shutdown