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Network Time Protocol

Network Time Protocol - Junos Tutorial

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Network Time Protocol

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- [Instructor] All right. Let's talk about a very popular protocol known as the Network Time Protocol. The Network Time Protocol is used to synchronize the clocks of routers, and other hardware devices on the internet, but why do we need to do this? Why do we need to synchronize the clocks of devices? Well, when you have the clocks of your devices synchronized, debugging and troubleshooting will become much easier because the timestamps in the log files of all these devices are going to be synchronized. When you configure NTP on a Junos device, the Junos device can be configured to behave as an NTP client or as a secondary NTP Server or as a primary NTP Server. Let's understand the differences. When a Junos device is configured as a primary NTP Server, it synchronizes to a reference clock that is directly traceable to UTC. Reference clocks have the most accurate, and highest precision of time keeping.…

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