I was going to mention that, in retrospect, it would have been better to have had an external sensor ...Your response explains why I haven't been able to get any additional information about the "cross-patch" approach. I had a gut feeling that this ...

Attempting to obtain time from a 7200 router configured as follows: ntp authentication-key xxxxxxxxxx ntp authenticate ntp trusted-key 1I verified that ntpd is not running and attempted to run ntpdate manually with the following output: [root...

Thanks for all of the great information so far -- I have an additional question with regard to the deployment of the IDSM-2 blades in a A/B core switch configuration.The hardware setup that I am working with is a dual-6500 core switch with an IDSM-2 ...

I'm not certain how msmitha got this working - perhaps it's the difference in IDS platform. I am in the process of deploying a couple of IDSM-2 modules and have never been able to get NTP to work. The same fatal error message comes up. Using "show...