Time server problems

[mldowling]

Hello @jmjones,
Have you seen this previous reply from @sitloongs where he covers the “Service Forwarding” settings for NTP traffic?

Having unit be an NTP time server would be helpful

@mldowling Please check the below 8.1.0 beta3 features improvement using Peplink device (supported models) as NTP server. It’s important that you have to make sure the Peplink device having correct system time in-order the NTP server will work correctly. For device models that support GPS, GPS time can now be use as the source for system time. We have 3 options now for the time sync option. [image] Enabling NTP Server - Make sure you enable the NTP server feature for the device, default N…

This post from @MartinLangmaid has some helpful insights too

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]

You do not need to declare the DHCP option 42 (time server option) with this setup.

Where possible, we always use the GPS antenna as primary for time reference; the secondary comes from a local NTP approved server or the local pool at ntp.org (find your local, i.e. au.pool.ntp.org)
Happy to Help,
Marcus