Re: [Linuxptp-users] clockcheck jumps forwards and backwards

2017-04-05 Thread David Mirabito
Gah, sorry - I goofed and pulled the 'ps' output from a different box than the config. That indeed is the domain and does match the conf for any given machine, but not when I mix'n'match (ttl, domain, and transport are site-specific). >From the problematic box: bash-4.3# cat /etc/ptp4l.conf [glob

Re: [Linuxptp-users] clockcheck jumps forwards and backwards

2017-04-05 Thread Richard Cochran
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 09:18:09AM +1000, David Mirabito wrote: > The config is: > > [global] > slaveOnly 1 > summary_interval 6 > priority1 255 > > [ma2] > > And running as: >/usr/sbin/ptp4l -f /etc/ptp4l.conf >/usr/sbin/phc2sys -a -r -u 64 -n 5 Why are you using domain number 5 for ph

Re: [Linuxptp-users] clockcheck jumps forwards and backwards

2017-04-04 Thread David Mirabito
Hi, The device is a: 00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I354 (rev 03) Using bash-4.3# ethtool -i ma2 driver: igb version: 5.3.0-k firmware-version: 0.0.0 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: :00:14.1 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes s

Re: [Linuxptp-users] clockcheck jumps forwards and backwards

2017-04-04 Thread Ian Thompson
Possibly following on from David’s post. We have a system with 18 boards in a rack, each board has a Altera SoC with the STM Ethernet MAC connected via gigabit Ethernet to an Arista ptp-aware switch and then a Spectracom GrandMaster. The boards are running Linux kernel 3.15.0. They lock quickly

Re: [Linuxptp-users] clockcheck jumps forwards and backwards

2017-04-04 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 06:52:21PM +1000, David Mirabito wrote: > Is it safe to assume, that given a crappy PTP network ptp4l would just > degrade to ntp-like performance at worst? Or are there some other > thresholds or sanity checks which would cause it to throw in the towel in > situations where