BCM Clock

[bfitz8339]

I have a customer with a BCM 400 w\4.0. He is having a problem with the clock. It looses time with the network time.It was suggested to load the accumlitive patch (BCM 400 smart update).My question is has anyone had this problem and has this patch corrected this problem.

 

[MagnaRGP]

Setup your BCM to receive Network Time. I don't recall where the prompt is within the system trees, but it can pull SNTP from a time server that you specify.

It's in the docs.

 

[NARSBARS]

I don't want to jump in on a post, but I have set up a number of BCMs to pull network time, but they either do not pull the time automatically or they pull it at random times that are not what I set.

If anyone thinks this is not the place for this post. I will start a new thread.
Thank you

Any ideas?

NARSBARS

 

[MagnaRGP]

If I recall correctly, when you set up the NTP client, you tell the BCM the server IP, what the MAX and MIN time adjustments are and how often to pull time (in seconds -- the default is 86000 something which works out to 24 hours). Also there is a service which needs to be started and set to auto

The other field is something like "Exit after setting time once" and enabled or disabled are your choices.

You need to ensure that the exit field is set to DISABLED. This is a little counter-intuitive, but that's how it needs to be set.

Once all of these are set, a quick reboot to ensure the service comes back up and you should be good to go.

Also, you need to ensure that you are using a Publicly accessible Time server which does not require registration or a key to access. Google "public NTP servers" and there is a huge list of world-wide servers there and it shows whether they are accessible or not. You might need to ping the server name to resolve the IP. Also some servers change IP, so you may need to test now and again.

Should be it...

 

[NARSBARS]

4.0 System-Configuration-SNTP

I can't find the "exit after setting time once" field.



NARSBARS

 

[saafedt]

Go to system - date & time - select NTP and your NTP server IP address. It will pull time every 4-5 hours from the network depending on the seconds, also don't forget to set the security mode. I have it set to Unsecured

 

[SNSSMIS]

Normally the router would be setup as a time server. Try using the default gateway as the time server ip.