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g. 6—NTP control message
h. 7—reserved for private use.
• Stratum: An 8-bit integer that indicates the stratum level of the local clock, with the value ranging
from 1 to 16. Clock precision decreases from stratum 1 through stratum 16. A stratum 1 clock has
the highest precision, and a stratum 16 clock is not synchronized and cannot be used as a reference
clock.
• Poll: An 8-bit signed integer that indicates the maximum interval between successive messages,
which is called the poll interval.
• Precision: An 8-bit signed integer that indicates the precision of the local clock.
• Root Delay: Roundtrip delay to the primary reference source.
• Root Dispersion: The maximum error of the local clock relative to the primary reference source.
• Reference Identifier: Identifier of the particular reference source.
• Reference Timestamp: The local time at which the local clock was last set or corrected.
• Originate Timestamp: The local time at which the request departed from the client for the service
host.
• Receive Timestamp: The local time at which the request arrived at the service host.
• Transmit Timestamp: The local time at which the reply departed from the service host for the client.
• Authenticator: authentication information.
Operation modes of NTP
Devices that run NTP can implement clock synchronization in one of the following modes:
• Client/server mode
• Symmetric peers mode
• Broadcast mode
• Multicast mode
You can select operation modes of NTP as needed. If the IP address of the NTP server or peer is unknown
and many devices in the network need to be synchronized, you can adopt the broadcast or multicast
mode; while in the client/server and symmetric peers modes, a device is synchronized from the specified
server or peer, so clock reliability is enhanced.
Client/server mode
Figure 55 Client/server mode