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APPENDIX J NTP Client Overview
For NTP to function, an LX Series NTP client must be able to access an NTP
timeserver on the network. NTP runs over User Datagram Protocol (UDP),
which in turn runs over IP. NTP is a tiered time distribution system with
redundancy capability, and measures delays within the network and within the
algorithms on the machine on which it is running. Using these tools and
techniques, it synchronizes clocks to within milliseconds of each other when
connected on a Local Area Network.
The LX-Series provides an NTP Version 4 (RFC2030) implementation. The
Network Time Protocol (NTP) defines a set of procedures for synchronizing
clocks on hosts connected to a network with access to the Internet. NTP goes
beyond simple routines that occasionally query a timeserver, and adjusts the
local clock to a time value received from the server. LX Series Products act as
a Client, which query defined timeserver hosts on the network.
The LX Series allows the LX administrator to configure a Client mode Primary
and an optional Client mode Alternate NTP Time Server target IP Address,
which the LX NTP Client queries to obtain and synchronize its time and date.
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