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jlarger's avatar
jlarger
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Mar 08, 2023

NTP behavior on the management backplane

We see NTP for 127.3.0.1, .2, .3, .4 on our guests in INIT or STEP for all 4 blades. These guests are syncing successfully  to external NTP servers and do not show Peer Time Out of Sync prompts.  Fr...
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PSFletchTheTek
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Mar 09, 2023

INIT and STEP normally mean that the ntp service hasn't had a responce from a NTP server.
So this might be config, routing or firewalls etc.
the 127.3.0.X look like local loop back addresses, are you on a viprion? Not sure if there is a passthrough for this sort of stuff over the chassis.

Also what do you mean by guests?
Do you have local NTP Servers or are you trying to go external?