Omicron Lab OTMC 100 Series User Manual page 70

OTMC 100 Series User Manual
Mode Select 1 to 3 sources for OTMC 100 to receive NTP time information from if it is not
locked to GPS satellites. The more sources you specify, the more accurate is the NTP
time information OTMC 100 can deliver.
Select IPv4 or IPv6, and type in the address of an NTP time server (e.g. pool.ntp.org) to
the respective field. Or select Disabled if you do not want to use it.
Use the corresponding Minpoll and Maxpoll fields to enter the minimum and maximum
polling interval as a power of 2 (i.e., in 2
OTMC 100 will poll the NTP time server every 32 seconds (= 2
resulting in an interval between 16 and 131072 seconds.
7.3.4.2 Broadcast mode pane
The most common configuration is the client/server mode where every client sends a request to the
server to retrieve the current time. No separate configuration is required for this mode.
The broadcast/multicast mode works by broadcasting the time into the network. In this case, the
clients must be configured to listen for broadcast/multicast messages in the network. This mode can
be configured on this tab.
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x seconds). For example, if you enter a value of 5,
5
). Possible values: 4 to 17,
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