Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.0 Special and Early Deployments

Table Of Contents

Time Server Functionality

Feature Overview

Benefits

Restrictions

Supported Platforms

Supported MIBs and RFCs

Configuration Tasks

Configuration Examples

Command Reference

cable time-server

Syntax Description

Defaults

Command Modes

Command History

Examples

Time Server Functionality

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Feature Overview

This feature adds a time-of-day service to the cable headend system.

Benefits

Standalone cable headend systems can obtain the correct time of day from larger systems as part of an low-maintenance, background function.

Restrictions

Time server support is restricted to service over UDP.

Supported Platforms

Cisco uBR7200 Series

Supported MIBs and RFCs

MIBs

None

RFCs

RFC868

Configuration Tasks

To configure the time-of-day service simply configure the cable time server.

Configuration Examples

None

Command Reference

This section documents new commands. All other commands used with this feature are documented in the Cisco IOS Release 12.0 command references.

•cable time-server

cable time-server

To enable the time-of-day server, use the cable time-server global CONFIG command. Use the no form of this command to disable the time-of-day service function.

cable time-server [enable | disable]
no cable time-server

Syntax Description

enable	Starts the time-of-day server as a background task.
disable	Stops the time-of-day server.

Defaults

disable

Command Modes

Global CONFIG

Command History

Release	Modification
12.0(4)XI	This command was introduced.

Examples

The following example enables the time-of-day server:

Router(config)#cable time-server enable