Installation Manual

C. Set the Correct Time and Date (Optional)

Each time you power up the router, it starts with a default time and date.

Whether you set the correct time and date or not depends on how you

want the time and date to be maintained in your network. When the time

and date in one router is used as the source for time and date in another

router, the time/date control is termed the “Time Protocol service”. Use

the following table to:

1. Identify the Time Protocol usage for your router.

1. Determine whether to set the date and time:

If the router will operate as a: Set date and time?

Client of Time Protocol service

Server of Time Protocol service

Both Client and Server of Time Protocol service

Neither client nor server of Time Protocol

service

Yes

No*

Yes

The router designated as “server only” provides the Time Protocol service. If

no router is designated “server only”, then a client/server router should pro-

vide the Time Protocol service.

If you need to set the time and date, use the NCL Time command:

1. From the Main menu, select the Network Control Language

Interpreter.

2. At the NCL prompt at the bottom of the screen (page 1-30), enter the

Time command with the date and time, as follows:

time mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss

where:

mm = month hh = hour

dd = day mm = minutes

yy = year ss = seconds

Use the Exit command to exit from NCL and return to the Main

menu.

For more information on the Time command, refer to the Operator’s

Reference.

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