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Internet Protocol (IP) based networks have quickly advanced from the traditional best effort delivery model to a model where performance and reliability need to be quantified and, in many cases, guaranteed with Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The need for greater insight into network characteristics has led to significant research efforts that are targeted at important metrics and measurement capabilities to characterize network behavior. The foundation of many metric methodologies is the measurement of time.
Network time synchronization, to the degree required for modern performance analysis, is an essential exercise. Based in the business models, and the services that are provided, the characterization of network performance is considered an important competitive service differentiator In these cases, great expense is incurred when you deploy network management systems and direct engineering resources to analyze the collected performance data. However, if proper attention is not given to the often-overlooked principle of time synchronization, those efforts are ineffective.
This document describes a hypothetical process definition for network management function management for the Network Time Protocol (NTP). You can use this article as a hypothetical procedure and an informational example. This can be customized by an organization to meet internal objectives.
The heart of the time service is the system clock. The system clock runs from the moment the system starts and keeps track of the current date and time. The system clock can be set from a number of sources and, in turn, can be used to distribute the current time through various mechanisms to other systems. Some routers contain a battery-powered calendar system that tracks the date and time across system restarts and power outages. This calendar system is always used to initialize the system clock when the system is restarted. It can also be considered as an authoritative source of time and redistributed through NTP if no other source is available. Furthermore, if NTP is enabled, the calendar is periodically updated from NTP, and this compensates for the inherent drift in the calendar time. When a router with a system calendar is initialized, the system clock is set based on the time in its internal battery-powered calendar. On models without a calendar, the system clock is set to a predetermined time constant. The system clock can be set from the sources listed next.
Certain low-end Cisco devices only support SNTP. SNTP is a simplified, client-only version of NTP. SNTP can only receive the time from NTP servers and cannot be used to provide time services to other systems. SNTP typically provides time within 100 milliseconds of the accurate time. In addition, SNTP does not authenticate traffic, although you can configure extended access lists to provide some protection. An SNTP client is more vulnerable to noncompliant servers than an NTP client and must only be used in situations where strong authentication is not required.
The system clock keeps track of time internally based on UTC, also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). You can configure information about the local time zone and daylight savings time so that the time is displayed correctly relative to the local time zone. The system clock keeps track of whether the time is authoritative or not. If it is not authoritative, the time can be available only for display purposes and cannot be redistributed.
NTP is designed to synchronize the time on a network of machines. NTP runs over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), with port 123 as both the source and destination, which in turn runs over IP. NTP Version 3 RFC 1305 is used to synchronize timekeeping among a set of distributed time servers and clients. A set of nodes on a network are identified and configured with NTP and the nodes form a synchronization subnet, sometimes referred to as an overlay network. While multiple primary servers can exist, there is no requirement for an election protocol.
An NTP network usually gets its time from an authoritative time source, such as a radio clock or an atomic clock attached to a time server. NTP then distributes this time across the network. An NTP client makes a transaction with its server over its polling interval (from 64 to 1024 seconds) which dynamically changes over time dependent on the network conditions between the NTP server and the client. The other situation occurs when the router communicates to a bad NTP server (for example, NTP server with large dispersion); the router also increases the poll interval. No more than one NTP transaction per minute is needed to synchronize two machines.
NTP uses the concept of a stratum to describe how many NTP hops away a machine is from an authoritative time source. For example, a stratum 1 time server has a radio or atomic clock directly attached to it. It then sends its time to a stratum 2 time server through NTP, and so on. A machine that runs NTP automatically chooses the machine with the lowest stratum number that it is configured to communicate with NTP as its time source. This strategy effectively builds a self-organizing tree of NTP speakers. NTP performs well over the non-deterministic path lengths of packet-switched networks because it makes robust estimates of the next three key variables in the relationship between a client and a time server.
There are two ways in which NTP does not synchronize to a machine whose time is not accurate. First of all, NTP never synchronizes to a machine that is not synchronized itself. Secondly, NTP compares the time reported by several machines, and does not synchronize to a machine whose time is significantly different than the others, even if its stratum is lower.
The communications between machines that run NTP (associations) are usually statically configured. Each machine is given the IP address of all machines with which it must form associations. Accurate timekeeping is made possible by NTP messages exchanged between each pair of machines with an association. However, in a LAN environment, NTP can be configured to use IP broadcast messages instead. This alternative reduces configuration complexity because each machine can be configured to send or receive broadcast messages. However, the accuracy of timekeeping is marginally reduced because the information flow is one-way only.
The time kept on a machine is a critical resource and it is strongly recommended that you use the security features of NTP to avoid the accidental or malicious setting of incorrect time. The two security features available are an access list-based restriction scheme and an encrypted authentication mechanism.
Cisco implementation of NTP supports the stratum 1 service in certain Cisco IOS software releases. If a release supports the ntp refclock command, it is possible to connect a radio or atomic clock. Certain releases of Cisco IOS support either the Trimble Palisade NTP Synchronization Kit (Cisco 7200 series routers only) or the Telecom Solutions Global Positioning System (GPS) device. If the network uses the public time servers on the Internet and the network is isolated from the Internet, Cisco implementation of NTP allows a machine to be configured so that it acts as though it is synchronized through NTP, when in fact it has determined the time by other means. Other machines then synchronize to that machine through NTP.
Each client in the synchronization subnet, which can also be a server for higher stratum clients, chooses one of the available servers to synchronize to. This is usually from among the lowest stratum servers it has access to. However, this is not always an optimal configuration, because NTP also operates under the premise that each server time must be viewed with a certain amount of distrust. NTP prefers to have access to several sources of lower stratum time (at least three) since it can then apply an agreement algorithm to detect insanity on the part of any one of these. Normally, when all servers agree, NTP chooses the best server in terms of lowest stratum, closest (in terms of network delay), and claimed precision. The implication is that, while one must aim to provide each client with three or more sources of lower stratum time, several of these can only provide backup service and can be of lesser quality in terms of network delay and stratum. For example, a same-stratum peer that receives time from lower stratum sources the local server does not access directly, can also provide good backup service.
NTP generally prefers lower stratum servers to higher stratum servers unless the lower stratum server time is significantly different. The algorithm is able to detect when a time source is likely to be extremely inaccurate, or insane, and to prevent synchronization in these cases, even if the inaccurate clock is at a lower stratum level. And it can never synchronize a device to another server that is not synchronized itself.
The peer.valid and sys.hold variables were added to avoid instabilities when the reference source changes rapidly due to large dispersive delays under conditions of severe network congestion. The peer.config, peer.authenticable, and peer.authentic bits were added to control special features and simplify configuration.
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