Can anyone explain what the values returned from the following 'tcpdump
port 123' mean, relative to ntp?"

<date> wsq7.ntp > okane.ntp:  v4 client strat 7 poll 6 prec -17 (DF)
[tos 0x10]

I was interested specifically in the values of the parameters following
"okane.ntp:"

Thanks for any light you can shed on this!

your answer is in the source (perhaps docs) for tcpdump.

The easy way to figure out what the numbers mean would be to run:

 ntpq -p wsq7 okane

about the same time and see what values you get there.

H