On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 01:59:24PM +0000, Luke Bigum wrote:

> Regarding ptp4l only writing PTP timescale to PHCs...  Imagine I
> wanted to packet capture with Hardware Timestamps on the same
> interface where ptp4l is receiving PTP messages.  If the GM is
> sending TAI+offset, ptp4l is writing TAI time to that PHC, and my
> PCAPs would be stamped with a less user-friendly time.

You probably already know this, but in general there is no guarantee
that the libpcap hw time stamps are synchronized to anything at all.

> This would probably break all it's boundary clock behaviour, so I'd
> imagine it only ever used with slaveOnly=1.  Is that a reasonable
> feature request?

It opens up a can of worms... think leap second handling!  I don't
want to go there.

Thanks,
Richard



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