Field Description
(none) One or more of the following symbols could be displayed:
• * means synchronized to this peer.
• # means almost synchronized to this peer.
• + means the peer was selected for possible 
synchronization.
• - means the peer is a candidate for selection.
• ~ means the peer is statically configured.
remote Displays the remote IP address of the NTP peer.
ref clock Displays the IP address of the remote peer’s reference clock.
st Displays the peer’s stratum, that is, the number of hops 
away from the external time source. A 16 in this column 
means the NTP peer cannot reach the time source.
when Displays the last time the switch received an NTP packet.
poll Displays the polling interval (in seconds).
reach Displays the reachability to the peer (in octal bitstream).
delay Displays the time interval or delay for a packet to complete 
a round-trip to the NTP time source (in milliseconds).
offset Displays the relative time of the NTP peer’s clock to the 
switch clock (in milliseconds).
disp Displays the dispersion.
Example
Dell#show ntp associations
remote      ref clock  st when poll reach delay  offset disp
=============================================================
 10.10.120.5 0.0.0.0     16 - 256        0 0.00 0.000 16000.0
*172.16.1.33 127.127.1.0 11 6 16         377   -0.08 -1499.9 
104.16
 172.31.1.33 0.0.0.0     16 - 256        0 0.00 0.000 16000.0
 192.200.0.2 0.0.0.0     16 - 256        0 0.00 0.000 16000.0
* master (synced), # master (unsynced), + selected, - candidate
Dell#
Related 
Commands
show ntp status — displays the current NTP status.
1658
System Time and Date