On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be nice to have timestamps on every packet but, for whatever
> reason, this is not how most existing 1588 hardware works. Current hardware
> keys off specific protocol identifier fields in packets and takes a
> timestamp on match.  There's some small amount of hardware buffer dedicated
> to holding timestamps.

This is key, and needs to be stated in the I-D, quite possibly in the
abstract.  I guess it's time to set aside time to go read IEEE 1588...
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