great. thank you

awesome. I never thought about this. I have many switches in my inside network and I would not mind configuring only one with an outside NTP server and then configuring the rest to get their time from this switch

How will I go about setting up that single switch as an NTP server though?

at first look, that link appears cryptic for me.

It talks about authentication, IDs, etc.

If I'm gonna setup one of my switches to be an NTP server, I'd like it to not ask any clients for IDs, authentications, etc., etc.

Also, it confused me a bit on how to setup the switch to get its time from an outside NTP server and at the same time be one NTP server.

Then, I'd just want to go into the other switches and setup the NTP command and use this switch IP address as their NTP server.

excuse my simple questions but I am a novice here.

oh, and can I setup more than 1 NTP servers in a switch? so if one NTP becomes unreachable for x reason, the switch can still pull the correct time from the other. Can this be done?

Yes you can do it.

Just configure the following

ntp server x.x.x.x prefer ---> this will be preferred

ntp server y.y.y.y

NTP authentication is used for security but you can skip them in the begining

HTH

Narayan

Great. simple enough as always Rick

Angel

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