On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 12:27:37PM +0100, Hannes Harms wrote:
> For example currently it is not possible to sync a gstreamer ptp clock  with
> a ptp4l master on the same host.

The gstreamer PTP implementation is completely broken.  It has no
business receiving PTP packets!  It should really use the standard
interfaces that we have provided.

> Is it safe to enable IP_MULTICAST_LOOP ?

At the very least, this will cause ptp4l to receive its own
transmission.
 
> Would a patch to enable IP_MULTICAST_LOOP be acceptable?

Let's not hack ptp4l.  Instead, how about adding proper PTP support
into gstreamer?

Thanks,
Richard



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