By default, the broadcast mode is not enabled.
NOTE
This command is not effective, if the NTP server is disabled.
Brocade(config)#int m1
Brocade(config-if-mgmt-1)#ip address 10.20.99.173/24
Brocade(config-if-mgmt-1)#ntp
Brocade(config-ntp)#ntp-interface m1
Brocade(config-ntp -mgmt-1)# broadcast destination 10.20.99.0 key 2
Syntax: [no] broadcast destination ip-address [ key key-id ] [ version num ]
The ip-address parameter is the IPv4 subnet address of the device to send NTP broadcast messages
to.
The key key-id option defines the authentication key. By default, no authentication key is configured.
The version num option defines the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version number. If this option is not
specified, then the default value is 4.
Displaying NTP status
Use the show ntp status command to display the NTP status.
Brocade#show ntp status
Clock is synchronized, stratum 4, reference clock is 10.20.99.174
precision is 2**-16
reference time is D281713A.80000000 (03:21:29.3653007907 GMT+00 Thu Dec 01 2011)
clock offset is -2.3307 msec, root delay is 24.6646 msec
root dispersion is 130.3376 msec, peer dispersion is 84.3335 msec
system poll interval is 64, last clock update was 26 sec ago
NTP server mode is enabled, NTP client mode is enabled
NTP master mode is disabled, NTP master stratum is 8
NTP is not in panic mode
The following table provides descriptions of the show ntp status command output.
NTP status command output descriptionsTABLE 4
Field Description
synchronized Indicates the system clock is synchronized to NTP server or peer.
stratum Indicates the stratum number that this system is operating. Range 2..15.
reference IPv4 address or first 32 bits of the MD5 hash of the IPv6 address of the peer to which clock
is synchronized.
precision Precision of the clock of this system in Hz.
reference time Reference time stamp.
clock offset Offset of clock (in milliseconds) to synchronized peer.
root delay Total delay (in milliseconds) along path to root clock.
root dispersion Dispersion of root path.
Displaying NTP status
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