3Com Router Command Reference Guide Addendum for V1.2

Parameter

X.X.X.X: Multicast IP address, that is, Class D address.

Description

Using the ntp-servicemulticast-clientcommand, you can enable the NTP multicast client mode. Using the undo ntp-servicemulticast-clientcommand, you can disable the NTP multicast client mode.

By default, multicast client service is not configured and X.X.X.X is 224.0.1.1.

With this command, you can specify the current interface on the local device to receive NTP multicast messages and the local device to work in multicast-client mode. The local router first detects the multicast message packets from the server. Upon the receipt of the first broadcast message packet, the local router enters a temporary Client/Server mode to exchange the message with the remote server for the purpose of estimating the network delay, and then it switches to the broadcast client mode to assume the work of detecting the incoming multicast message packets with which it can synchronize the local clock.

Example

Receive NTP multicast messages on the interface Ethernet 0, given the multicast group address associated to the multicast messages is 224.0.1.1.

[3Com] interface Ethernet 0

[3Com-Ethernet0]ntp-service multicast-client 224.0.1.1

4.12 ntp-service multicast-server

Syntax

ntp-service multicast-server [ X.X.X.X ] [ authentication-keyid keyid ttl ttl-number version number ] *

undo ntp-service multicast-server [ X.X.X.X ]

View

Interface view

Parameter

X.X.X.X: Class D multicast IP address, which defaults to 224.0.1.1.

authentication-keyid: Defines an authentication key.

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