Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-22 Thread Richard Cochran
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:21:39PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > I think I said that this works when N==GM. > > Hm, does that change anything? If the delay of event messages going > from GM/N to S is larger than the delay of messages going from S to > GM/N, the clock of S will be running behi

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-09 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 07:52:11AM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:09:43AM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > It's not clear to me how would that work. Let's say I have a > > grandmaster GM, slave S and monitoring node N, and I don't know how > > much asymmetry is there o

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-09 Thread Richard Cochran
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:09:43AM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > It's not clear to me how would that work. Let's say I have a > grandmaster GM, slave S and monitoring node N, and I don't know how > much asymmetry is there on any of the paths GM-S, GM-N and S-N. How > will measuring offset of GM

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-09 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:02:52PM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:56:29PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > You mean asymmetry added by boundary clocks on the path to the > > grandmaster? > > Yes, or from any other source at all. It's not clear to me how would that wo

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-08 Thread Richard Cochran
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:56:29PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > You mean asymmetry added by boundary clocks on the path to the > grandmaster? Yes, or from any other source at all. > One thing I find odd is that the sync message doesn't have a TLV > attached too. Does the specification say an

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/18] NetSync Monitor support

2018-01-08 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:05:31PM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote: > This series adds support for Meinberg Funkuhren's NetSync Monitor > (NSM) protocol. NSM allows a node with a local time reference (like a > GM using GPS) to measure the offset of a given clock. In a nutshell, > NSM works by having