Hello Henry, If I recall correctly, assume_two_step is there to accommodate section 11.4.2.3 of 802.1AS-2011 where it says that the twoStepFlag is “Reserved as TRUE, ignored on reception”.
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Regards -- Delio > On 21 Sep 2016, at 11:20, Jesuiter, Henry (ALC NetworX GmbH) > <henry.jesui...@alcnetworx.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > recently I stumbled upon the "assume_two_step" config option (we accidentally > set this flag two '1' ;-)). As I read in the source, this is used to skip the > TWO_STEP flag inside the PTP messages, and just return '0' for one_step() > status. Could someone please explain, why this option is there? Since we > already have the TWO_STEP flag inside the messages, I can't see any reason > why we would need that option. Is it just a historical relic or are there > other reasons for this flag. > > Best regards > Henry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxptp-devel mailing list > Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
