Network services
As you progress further into your networking journey, you will be exposed to common network services that organizations rely upon each day to ensure their devices can exchange messages over a network. Some of these network services help organizations synchronize time on all devices within their network, while other network services provide IP addressing configurations to clients that are connecting to a network. In this section, you will learn about the characteristics and fundamentals of common networks that are implemented within organizations by network professionals to provide essential network services to users.
Network Time Protocol
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a network protocol that allows IT professionals to configure devices to synchronize their system clock to the same time on a network. NTP operates on a client-server model that uses UDP service port 123 by default. Without NTP on a network, IT professionals will need to manually configure the...
