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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by James Boney
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
798 pages
31h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

ntp server — global

Synopsis

ntp server address [version value] [key keyid] [source interface]
no ntp server address

Configures

Network Time Protocol (NTP) service

Default

None

Description

This command tells the router which NTP server to use. The router derives its time from the server but does not try to update the server’s time.

address

The IP address of the NTP peer.

version value

The NTP version (1 through 3). The default is 3.

key keyid

Authentication key to use for this peer. The ntp authentication-key command defines the keys and their key IDs.

source interface

The interface the router should use to communicate with this server.

Example

The following command sets our NTP server to 10.11.1.5:

ntp server 10.11.1.5 version 2
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