Hello, 

I am doing research with two of your intel I340-T2 gigabit network cards
and I am running into some technical issues possibly with the driver.  We
are trying to use the Precision Time Protocol daemon (PTPd) in order to
get two linux machines both using those networks cards to synchronize
their clocks through hardware timestamping. In all of your support for
these network cards, it says that hardware timestamping is possible, but
in actually doing the experiment, it seems as if the driver is not fast
enough to timestamp all packets within nanoseconds. Two packets always
need to be timestamped within nanoseconds of each other and the driver
only seems to allow stamping of one of them everytime and fails to give
the second a timestamp at all. When sleeps were added to the test code to
increase the time between packets needing to be stamped, the driver
executed properly timestamping all packets. Just wanted to clarify this
was a driver issue and see if there was any other solution or further
support.

Here are my specs:

Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection 
Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T2 

Driver Version: 3.0.22 

Linux kernel 2.6.32-5-686 

Thank you,
Dan Tucholski


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