[nsp] NTP server in 800 Series routers

[Victor Sudakov]

James Sneeringer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:32:01AM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> | What IOS feature set do I need to have an NTP server (not just SNTP
> | client) in a 800 Series router?
> 
> Judging from the release notes through IOS 12.2, the 800 series does
> not support full NTP in any feature set.

Should I believe you or Harold? :)

> 
> | If it is not available at all, what technology could I use to
> | broadcast NTP packets to a remote network behind a c805?
> 
> You are wanting to push time updates to clients instead of having the
> clients poll a server?  If your network topology will permit it, you
> might be able to have your NTP server use multicast for updates.  You
> will need a "plus" image to get multicast support on the 805, and then

Sounds too complicated. What if I just enable "ip directed-broadcast"
on the spoke router and make the hub router send NTP broadcasts to the
remote net's broadcast address?

> you only get relaying, but that should be enough for this application.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN