Just off-hand I would think that at best serial might perform as well as
ethernet, But could be (much) worse.
First off, modern ethernet implementations are not really CDMA. they run
full duplex into buffered switches.
I would think that serialization delay and packet processing variations
at serial line speeds could be worse than equivalent delays at 100 or
1000 Mbit. I think also that the implementation of multiple slip or ppp
terminations on the single tcp/ip stack of your S2 machine might
introduce lots of packet process ordering jitter etc. It has been many
years since this was a mainstream application on a host. So who knows
what shape the OS's are in in regards to real-time performance on serial
line pools.
Having said all that, Assuming you have the serial line hardware
available. It would certainly be an interesting experiment!
Regards,
Dale J. Robertson
On 10/23/2011 5:28 AM, Iain Young wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have often heard it said that since RS-232 is more "deterministic",
and suffers from less jitter, and uncertainties, than ethernet, that
it makes a better medium for time distribution (no CDMA for a start).
(Especially if you know how many bits you need to squirt over the
RS-232 link at what baud rate)
Since I am shortly going to have quite a few Srata 1 time sources,
my first thought of just plugging them all into a switch, and then
having an S2 box sat on the LAN, and distribute from there.
And remembering the rules about RS-232 etc, the (possibly mad) thought
of running SLIP or PPP over dedicated serial lines to link the Strata 1
boxes to the Strata 2 machine.
(I can't connect all the Strata 0 devices to the same Strata 1 box,
as there will be other processing being done on the GPS data using
RTKLIB on a couple of them)
To be honest, this is for nothing more than fun, and nothing critical
(this is time *nuts* after all), although it may well mean I have less
copper Ethernet hanging around working like tuned antennas, *and*
wouldn't need to go fibre on quite so many machines!
What are people's opinion and experience of doing such a thing ?
Best Regards
Iain
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