Re: NTP

The client authenticates the server. Never the other way around.

-Mike

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Bodnar, Edward <Edward.Bodnar_at_unisys.com>wrote:

> Quick question on NTP
>
> Is it possible to force authentication ? What I am saying is can I force a
> client to authenticate to my NTP master? In the lab if I set up NTP
> authentication on one router, I can set another box up without NTP
> authentication and it will pull the proper time. I guess I could se up an
> access list of the devices I want to allow to pull my time off my router
> but
> was wondering then what's the point of md5 authentication?
>
> Maybe there is a command I don't know about to force authentication ?
>
>
> Ed,
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