Hi all
I am trying to understand the numbers below from a "show ntp associations" 
on a cisco switch.
The 2 ip's are located very close to each other physically and 10.12.82.2 is 
synchronising with 10.46.100.100 which in turn is synchronising with our dc 
on 10.82.208.101.

why the difference in numbers? and what does the numbers "when", "poll" , 
"delay" "offset" and "disp" mean? ?


     address                 ref clock              st  when  poll reach 
delay  offset    disp
*~10.46.100.100      10.82.208.101     4   561  1024  377     0.8  -36.56 
12.2
+~10.12.82.2           10.46.100.100      5   636  1024  377     1.3  -18.40 
7.0
 * master (synced), # master (unsynced), + selected, - candidate, ~ 
configured

I am sorry if i am a little naive in asking you this, and would be glad if 
you could recommend a good faq on this...

/Towli Denmark 

Towli wrote:
> Hi all
> I am trying to understand the numbers below from a "show ntp
> associations" on a cisco switch.
[]
> why the difference in numbers? and what does the numbers "when",
> "poll" , "delay" "offset" and "disp" mean? ?
[]
> I am sorry if i am a little naive in asking you this, and would be
> glad if you could recommend a good faq on this...
> 
> /Towli Denmark

Towli,

Take a look here:

  http://doc.ntp.org/

and:

  http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/ntpq.html

Perhaps that is a start?

Cheers,
David