Ah, thanks! I didn't see it in the WinBox list, because it says "SNTP", and I was looking for something beginning with "N" ...

I notice it starts off with a polling interval of 32 seconds, which as I understand the NTP protocol (I'm not sure about the SNTP protocol), is violation of the standard (you start at 64 seconds), but it rapidly moves to 64 seconds and beyond (as it should).

I ran a stratum 2 server for a decade, and finally dropped it due to massive abuse: I had abandon the domain I used (see http://www.ultimeth.com/Abandon.html ), due to an idiot who hard-coded in his free software (distributed widely, see the link), to access my NTP server hostname with a polling rate under a minute.

Yes, v6.10, not v6.01. I'm a mathematician, what can I say?

I see how to do logging ...

On 2014-03-15 11:04, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:

Dean,

RouterOS supports being an NTP client, on the command line you'd find it under /system ntp client ...

I have a Stratum 1 server running on HamWAN at 44.24.255.3, and you're welcome to use it if you like.

As for the software versions, 6.1 is fairly old at this point, did you mean 6.10? As for the firmware, generally whatever the latest is, is fine. It doesn't make much difference as far as the features are concerned.

Nigel K7NVH

On Mar 15, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan@ae7q.net> wrote:

FYI: I of course followed the instructions to upgrade the OS to v6.1 before I did anything. However, when I clicked on "RouterBoard" in WinBox, I found that I was running firmware (which is of course "different") v3.02, and v3.12 was available. I did the upgrade (no separate download needed), with no observable effects.

I sure wish this thing had a decent scheme to get the date/time from somewhere. Even a reboot (required by the firmware upgrade), resets the clock. I may try my hand at a script, but without setting the clock on each boot, the log timestamps are completely useless. Not to mention that the log appears to be cleared on each boot. Ugh. I think there's a way to send the log transactions to a server, and that will be useful ...

Gotta go, be back this evening ...

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