NTP associations

Networking devices running NTP can be configured to operate in variety of association modes when synchronizing time with reference time sources. A networking device can obtain time information on a network in two ways-by polling host servers and by listening to NTP broadcasts. That is, there are two types of associations-poll-based and broadcast-based.

In this section:

  1. NTP poll-based associations
  2. NTP broadcast-based associations
Parent topic: Network Time Protocol Version 4 Overview