Lab 35: Configuring NTP Servers, Clients, and Peer Associations-Part II

Chapter 17. Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

Bob poured feverishly over the latest trace of the chronic link problem. There was a strong chance that it was this same problem that they had experienced just one week earlier. Bob wasn't his real name; it was a name that all the guys called him because he was the "new guy." Bob knew almost every acronym in the Telco industry, and he also knew that the ATM was indeed faster then Ethernet. In the middle of his spaghetti network, he had finally found a "smoking gun." He would finally prove his worth to the whole group by cracking this chronic problem. Carefully continuing down the trace, he came to two places where the link had failed: The timestamps read 12:01:21 OCT 18, 1999 and 11:23:40 OCT 18, 1999. Quickly turning to the log of the remote site, Bob found 105 failures, all dated from 11:57:42.079 UTC Mar 1 1993 to 03:32:12.022 UTC Mar 17. Hmmmmmmm .

Sadly, Bob would have to wait for another day and unfortunately , another failure, to correlate his findings. The next time, however, it will be different: Bob is going to add the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to his acronym list.