NTP Server

[rda]

Can the comware platform act as an NTP server? (10500 specifically) The documentation leads me to believe it can't, however it is a little fuzzy.

Thanks,

Dan

[paulgear]

Hi Dan,

In my testing, i've found that by instructing ntpd on Linux to use NTPv3 when communicating with a Comware switch (rather than v4, which is the default), it was able to see it as a time server.  Following is an example of 'ntpq -pn' output on one of my systems.  The first 3 peers are Linux servers and the last one is a 5500-EI switch running Comware 5.20 r2208.

     remote           refid     st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*10.0.0.254 192.189.54.33    3 u    7   64   17    0.627   58.862  26.406
 10.0.0.5   192.189.54.33    3 u    5   64   17    0.249  -38.213  22.716
 10.0.0.249 130.102.128.23   3 u    3   64   17    0.157  -40.462  21.862
 10.0.0.251 10.0.0.249  4 u   63   64   16    1.853  -36.872  20.194