On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:01:04PM +0100, Delio Brignoli wrote:
> 
> No, it can hardly be as low in practice but I was actually thinking the 
> opposite: we should increase neighborPropDelayThresh to INT32_MAX. I mean, 
> why the half hearted attempt at disabling the option when we can ensure it 
> never triggers? Also 20ms is really a number I came up with because is large 
> enough, but it’s not specified anywhere.

I think the defaults only have to be reasonable, not perfect. IMHO,
twenty milliseconds is a nice value because almost certainly PTP won't
work at that level, but still a misconfigured network might produce
this value. So it acts as a safety net, like the clockcheck code.

Thanks,
Richard

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