3Com Switch 4200G Configuration Guide

Access Control Permission Configuration 297
■ The total number of the servers and peers configured for a switch can be up to
128.
■ After the configuration, the S4200G series switch does not establish connections
with the peer if it operates in NTP server mode. Whereas if it operates in any of the
other modes, it establishes connections with the peer.
■ If an S4200G series switch operates as a passive peer in peer mode, NTP broadcast
client mode, or NTP multicast client mode, the connections it establishes with the
peers are dynamic. If it operates in other modes, the connections it establishes
with the peers are static.
Access Control
Permission
Configuration
Access control permission to NTP server is a security measure that is of the minimum
extent. Authentication is more reliable comparing to it.
An access request made to an NTP server is matched from the highest permission to
the lowest, that is, in the order of peer, server, synchronization, and query.
NTP Authentication
Configuration
For the networks with higher security requirements, you can specify to perform
authentications when enabling NTP. With the authentications performed on both the
client side and the server side, the client is synchronized only to the server that passes
the authentication. This improves network security.
Prerequisites NTP authentication configuration involves:
■ Configuring NTP authentication on the client
■ Configuring NTP authentication on the server
Note the following when performing NTP authentication configuration:
■ If the NTP authentication is not enabled on a client, the client can be synchronized
to a server regardless of the NTP authentication configuration performed on the
server (assuming that the related configurations are performed).
■ You need to couple the NTP authentication with a trusted key.
■ The configurations performed on the server and the client must be the same.
■ A client with NTP authentication enabled is only synchronized to a server that can
provide a trusted key.
Table 258 Configure the access control permission to the local NTP server
Operation Command Description
Enter system view system-view —
Configure the access
control permission to
the local NTP server
ntp-service access { peer |
server | synchronization |
query } acl-number
Optional
By default, the access control
permission to the local NTP server is
peer.