Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level - followup

2014-03-27 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-03-27, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Well, it worked, at least partially. One group backed off to the point of depending on PTP for few microsecond sync error, versus a few tens to a hundred nanoseconds. This should work. It sounded and sounds like they really had no idea

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level - followup

2014-03-27 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article lh1kir$vie$1...@dont-email.me, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-03-27, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Well, it worked, at least partially. One group backed off to the point of depending on PTP for few microsecond sync error, versus a few tens to a hundred

[ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level - followup

2014-03-26 Thread Joe Gwinn
Well, it worked, at least partially. One group backed off to the point of depending on PTP for few microsecond sync error, versus a few tens to a hundred nanoseconds. This should work. As for the sub-microsecond sync error, maybe someday. For the other group, the hope probably still lives.

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-25 Thread Martin Burnicki
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists schrieb: Martin Burnicki wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: Indeed. If you read the right article from 1990 you also know you can do it on L1 C/A only by monitoring both code and carrier phase, as their ionospheric effect have

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-23 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, In article 532e42c8.6080...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: Joe, On 21/03/14 16:17, Joe Gwinn wrote: Magnus, Thus, another fairly severe environment. I have a personal war story from 1992: At a Air Traffic Control center in Canada,

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-22 Thread Magnus Danielson
Joe, On 21/03/14 16:17, Joe Gwinn wrote: Magnus, Thus, another fairly severe environment. I have a personal war story from 1992: At a Air Traffic Control center in Canada, one 19 cabinet had the green (safety ground) and white (power neutral) cables transposed. This caused 2.3 Vrms at 180

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-21 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, In article 532b5621.1040...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: Hi Joe, On 20/03/14 01:53, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article 5328ad2...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 18/03/14 01:24, Joe Gwinn wrote:

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Terje Mathisen
Hal Murray wrote: In article 53298269.6000...@systematicsw.ab.ca, Brian Inglis brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca writes: Something like a Thunderbolt GPSDO feeding data, PPS, and 10MHz clock to a chip executing instructions at some clock multiple and handling interrupts in a deterministic time

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article yvqdnqukc7qjb7fonz2dnuvz_vudn...@megapath.net, Hal Murray hal-use...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net wrote: In article 190320142025178186%joegw...@comcast.net, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net writes: The original issue was to be able to drop IRIG support in honor of PTP via the

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Rob
Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: Sure. My point is I haven't seen a use case in this thread for nanosecond *accuracy* relative to the TAI paper clock. It is not for timestamping the moment of clicking in an online auction or stock trade? Those people normally have infinite timestamping

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-03-20, Rob nom...@example.com wrote: Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: Sure. My point is I haven't seen a use case in this thread for nanosecond *accuracy* relative to the TAI paper clock. It is not for timestamping the moment of clicking in an online auction or stock trade? Those

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 19/03/14 10:43, Martin Burnicki wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: On 18/03/14 10:17, Martin Burnicki wrote: We have mades some tests and found that NTP can yield the same accuracy as NTP if also hardware timestamping of NTP packets is supported on all nodes, similar as for PTP. In fact this

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 19/03/14 10:50, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:20:08PM +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote: No, it's not. NTP is being perceived to be software timestamping but nothing prohibits you from doing it in hardware. Similarly can you implement PTP with software time-stamping (with

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Paul
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Rob nom...@example.com wrote: Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: Sure. My point is I haven't seen a use case in this thread for nanosecond *accuracy* relative to the TAI paper clock. It is not for timestamping the moment of clicking in an online auction or

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 19/03/14 18:51, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Martin Burnicki wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: Indeed. If you read the right article from 1990 you also know you can do it on L1 C/A only by monitoring both code and carrier phase, as their ionospheric

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-20 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Joe, On 20/03/14 01:53, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article 5328ad2...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 18/03/14 01:24, Joe Gwinn wrote: I've used IRIG-B004 DCLS before, for cables two meters long within a cabinet. Worked well. How well do they handle

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Burnicki
William Unruh wrote: On 2014-03-18, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: On 17/03/14 09:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: You'd need hardware (FPGA?) which can be clocked at 1 GHz, and even in the hardware signal processing you'd need to account for a number of

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: On 18/03/14 10:17, Martin Burnicki wrote: We have mades some tests and found that NTP can yield the same accuracy as NTP if also hardware timestamping of NTP packets is supported on all nodes, similar as for PTP. In fact this isn't surprising, is it? No, it's not. NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Burnicki
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Why not just NTP with a PTP RefClock Driver? People Already Run ( sell) Appliances that are both PTP NTP servers {which doesn't seem like it should be too hard}; I know. We at Meinberg are selling such appliances. ;-)

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-03-19 03:30, Martin Burnicki wrote: Brian Inglis wrote: On 2014-03-18 02:59, Martin Burnicki wrote: All depends on how accurate and precise you can get your timestamps, and this is probably easier with network packet timestampers at both sides of a cable than with a wireless time

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Brian Inglis wrote: Martin Burnicki wrote: At the single nanosecond accuracy level it would also be important to *which* local realizations UTC(k) you are referring, UTC(NIST), UTC(USNO), UTC(PTB), ... The source would need to provided by or calibrated against the ref, at some cost!

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-03-19 12:01, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Brian Inglis wrote: Martin Burnicki wrote: At the single nanosecond accuracy level it would also be important to *which* local realizations UTC(k) you are referring, UTC(NIST), UTC(USNO), UTC(PTB), ...

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Paul
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Brian Inglis brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: Each constellation has its own epoch, TAI or UTC time scale, and uncertainty: I'm unclear how various time scales relate to PTP. It would appear that the design intent is local (LAN) process control. And

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-03-19 16:32, Paul wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Brian Inglis brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: Each constellation has its own epoch, TAI or UTC time scale, and uncertainty: I'm unclear how various time scales relate to PTP. It would appear that the design intent is

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Paul
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Brian Inglis brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: While 1ns precision may be doable, accuracy depends on what controls the GM, and its traceability to a reference. Sure. My point is I haven't seen a use case in this thread for nanosecond *accuracy*

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article i3glva-5vm@ubuntu-server-1.py.meinberg.de, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Joe Gwinn wrote: I've used IRIG-B004 DCLS before, for cables two meters long within a cabinet. Worked well. How well do they handle 100 meter cables, in areas where the concept of

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-19 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article 5328ad2...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 18/03/14 01:24, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article 532778bf.50...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 17/03/14 13:50, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Magnus Danielson wrote: On 17/03/14 09:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: You'd need hardware (FPGA?) which can be clocked at 1 GHz, and even in the hardware signal processing you'd need to account for a number of signal propagation delays which you can eventually ignore at lower clock rates. So of

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Paul wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Yes. My question is basically a query about the current state of the art. Some NTP offsets (output may look funny if formatted) clock1 looking at clock2 and clock3 (a Raspberry Pi). This suggests it can be

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Paul wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: People are also lusting after sub-microsecond sync. Sure but not optimally in comp.protocols.ntp/questions@lists.ntp.org. With some help NTP can be quite good but the intent really isn't nanosecond accuracy.

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Paul
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: But without additional measurements you still don't know for sure if this is the true time offset, or if there is an additional systematic time offset (e.g. to an asymmetric network connection) which can't be

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-03-18, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: On 17/03/14 09:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: You'd need hardware (FPGA?) which can be clocked at 1 GHz, and even in the hardware signal processing you'd need to account for a number of signal propagation

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-03-18 02:59, Martin Burnicki wrote: All depends on how accurate and precise you can get your timestamps, and this is probably easier with network packet timestampers at both sides of a cable than with a wireless time transfer method like GPS which usually suffers from delays which can't

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 18/03/14 01:24, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article 532778bf.50...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 17/03/14 13:50, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article lg61s4$ong$3...@dont-email.me, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 18/03/14 02:45, Paul wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Joseph Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Will it do 100 meters or more, in bad neighborhoods? I'm not the right person to ask but since it is expected to maintain between 2.5 and 100 nanosecond sync with CPE nodes (cable

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 18/03/14 09:59, Martin Burnicki wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: On 17/03/14 09:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: You'd need hardware (FPGA?) which can be clocked at 1 GHz, and even in the hardware signal processing you'd need to account for a number of signal propagation delays which you can

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 18/03/14 10:17, Martin Burnicki wrote: Paul wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: People are also lusting after sub-microsecond sync. Sure but not optimally in comp.protocols.ntp/questions@lists.ntp.org. With some help NTP can be quite good but

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-18 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Magnus Danielson wrote: Martin Burnicki wrote: We have mades some tests and found that NTP can yield the same accuracy as NTP if also hardware timestamping of NTP packets is supported on all nodes, similar as for PTP. In fact this isn't surprising, is it? No, it's not. NTP is being

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with the right hardware to be sure). I've been reading IEEE 1588-2008, and they do talk of one

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Martin Burnicki
William Unruh wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with the right hardware to be sure). I've been reading IEEE 1588-2008, and

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article lg61s4$ong$3...@dont-email.me, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with the

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Paul
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Yes. My question is basically a query about the current state of the art. Some NTP offsets (output may look funny if formatted) clock1 looking at clock2 and clock3 (a Raspberry Pi). This suggests it can be as good as

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-03-17, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: William Unruh wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Terje Mathisen
William Unruh wrote: On 2014-03-17, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: If you have a counter chain clocked by 20 MHz then the timestamps captured when PTP packets are going out or are coming in have a resolution of 50 ns. I am not saying that a computer or a piece of hardware

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Hans Jørgen Jakobsen
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:50:08 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: Yes. My question is basically a query about the current state of the art. In Cable headends they are using the DTI interface/protocol to sync multiple boxes to within a few(5) ns. /hjj ___

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 17/03/14 09:48, Martin Burnicki wrote: William Unruh wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with the right hardware to be

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 17/03/14 13:50, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article lg61s4$ong$3...@dont-email.me, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article cakyj6kanol-pbm8d+kfcoceya6yi0chwphwgalxab8gowcg...@mail.gmail.com, Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Yes. My question is basically a query about the current state of the art. Some NTP offsets (output may

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Joe Gwinn
In article 532778bf.50...@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote: On 17/03/14 13:50, Joe Gwinn wrote: In article lg61s4$ong$3...@dont-email.me, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-03-16, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I keep seeing

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Paul
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not familiar with DTI. Look for DOCSIS timing interface. The tight specs mentioned earlier are over a backplane although the in-premises numbers are sub-microsecond. ___

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Joe Gwinn wrote: But my question is about the state of the art in PTP systems, not systems in general. (Shrug) I have Seven {About $500kUSD} AB GuardLogix Systems using AB {ODVA} CIP Sync IEEE 1588-2008 standard for time synchronization. It is not using any NTP, GPS, or IRIGB clock sources

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Paul
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Joe Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: People are also lusting after sub-microsecond sync. Sure but not optimally in comp.protocols.ntp/questions@lists.ntp.org. With some help NTP can be quite good but the intent really isn't nanosecond accuracy.

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread Paul
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Joseph Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: Will it do 100 meters or more, in bad neighborhoods? I'm not the right person to ask but since it is expected to maintain between 2.5 and 100 nanosecond sync with CPE nodes (cable modems) I assume it requires RF

Re: [ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-17 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
On 3/17/2014 6:37 PM, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Joe Gwinn wrote: Magnus Danielson wrote: Joe Gwinn wrote: Yes. My question is basically a query about the current state of the art [in PTP]. The state of the art is not yet standard and not yet off

[ntp:questions] IEEE 1588 (PTP) at the nanosecond level?

2014-03-16 Thread Joe Gwinn
I keep seeing claims that Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588-2008) can achieve sub-microsecond to nanosecond-level synchronization over ethernet (with the right hardware to be sure). I've been reading IEEE 1588-2008, and they do talk of one nanosecond, but that's the standard, and aspirational