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FIGURE 1 NTP Hierarchy

• NTP implementation conforms to RFC 5905.
• NTP can be enabled in server and client mode simultaneously.
• The NTP uses UDP port 123 for communicating with NTP servers/peers.
• NTP server and client can communicate using IPv4 or IPv6 address
• NTP implementation supports below association modes.

Client

Server

Symmetric active/passive

Broadcast server

Broadcast client

• NTP supports maximum of 8 servers and 8 peers. The 8 peers includes statically configured and

dynamically learned.

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