Jason Roysdon wrote:
>
> Do you have a Unix box you can host NTP from? Might try that as a source.
> Also, if this box is losing time, don't set it as an ntp master (it
> shouldn't be serving out bogus time). Oh, think I may have found your
> problem, try assigning a stratum to your master:
> ntp master 15
>
Or you can use an NT or other WinThing with Tardis:
http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/
> I'd set 15 as it's the lowest (especially since you have no true contact
> with an accurate source), and hopefully that'll let you get time to your
> misbehaving box. I tested a bit on some routers I have, and whenever I set
> bogus times, checked that it did get set bogus, and rebooted, they always
> got the right time when they came back up from the ntp master they were
> configured to poll.
>
I agree it should work; has for me plenty of times. Troubleshoot this
with #debug ntp xxx. Remember that NTP does a number of polls before
it actually sets the time, so you may have to wait a minute or so.
> --
> Jason Roysdon, CCNA, MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+
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>
As for the calendar part -- AFAIL, only 7000 routers have that $2 Dallas
watch chip included.
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> > We have a problem on our netowork where the router lose their clock
> settings
> > when the router reboots. The network is a closed network and does not
> have
> > any outside sources like an ntp server. Is there anyway to maintian the
> > clock even when the router is rebooted. I have tried setting the clock
> and
> > calendar and then using the "ntp master" and "ntp peer" commands, but the
> > peer routers clock does not update when I change the master router clock.
> > Is there something that I m missing here. I also tried using the clock
> > calendar- valid, but could not get the peer router to update it's clock
> when
> > I changed the master clock source. How does the clock calendar-valid
> > configuration work. I mean do I need to apply this command to all routers
> > in the network?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stan Rossetti
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