Having unit be an NTP time server would be helpful

[mldowling]

Thanks @sitloongs,
Appreciate the new firmware for the SpeedFusion Engine, this could be very useful for broadcasters.

With our previous question:

@mldowling

Attempting to work out a rule/policy to put within the routers to forward all LAN side NTP traffic enquiries to the routers internal NTP source and to log those enquiries in the event logs.

I looks like @MartinLangmaid may have answered it here

How to direct all internal NTP traffic to local server?

I can never remember what features the SOHO has removed from a normal balance, so don’t get your hopes up till you check, however on a Balance router you can go to Network > Misc.Settings | Service Forwarding and add a custom forwarding service for NTP that would redirect all NTP requests (to wherever you want). [image]

Can anyone yet verify this will work with the internal NTP Server and also if there are internal VLANs on the router running the NTP Server, how doe the VLANs works with the internal NTP Server (is it only the Native VLAN or all VALNs)?

A thought for the development team
When the devices are powered down, the NTP time reference will not matter as the NTP request can not be responded to. If when the power of the device returns, NTP Server can remain disabled until the unit has got its reference from GPS or the cellular network (or another verifiable external IP NTP server), once the reference is achieved, the router can then enable offering NTP. With this option, the requirement for an RTC will not be as essential as the time of the internal clock can be updated each time the GPS is updated. As an extra time drifting protection measure if the age since the last update exceeds an acceptable level (end-user to determine from 5 to 15 minutes) then the NTP feature can be automatically disabled until an acceptable duration of GPS timing references are achieved again.

Happy to Help,
Marcus