If you aren't asked to do anything, and you don't get any points for it, I'd leave things alone! I believe newer devices have a year 2000 default timestamp though, but always good to do a "show clock" just to be safe! "clock set" is a much more sane way of doing things. HTH, Scott
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meraz, Richard Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Vol 1 Sect 8 and 9 Authentication I just finished the Vol 1 Section 9, and after doing RIP and EIGRP Authentication, and learning that the send-lifetime and accept-lifetime are required with 12.4, I was wondering if it a good idea to just use the March 1993 clock setting in case you mess something up when doing NTP that might affect your current clock setting and thus your authentication. Thanks, Rich
