PTP has the potential to provide much more accurate time into the router than can be obtained with NTP. This PTP recovered time can be made available for system time and OAM packet time stamping to improve the accuracies of logged events and OAM delay measurements. The mechanism to activate PTP as the source for these internal time bases is to allocate PTP as a local server into NTP. This allows the NTP time recovery to use PTP as a source for time and then distribute it within the router to system time and the OAM process. This activation also affects the operation of the NTP server within the SR OS. The PTP server appears as NTP stratum 0 server and therefore the SR OS advertises itself as an NTP Stratum 1 server to external peers and clients. This activation may impact the NTP topology.