Re: [Linuxptp-users] Help Needed about Transparent Clock

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54:41AM +0530, Akhil Nair wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 07:31 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > 
> > But there are other issues to consider. A TC must behave like a
> > switch. Although you can use Linux to bridge multiple ports, still the
> > performance is not as good as real switch. So I would expect that no
> > one would be interested in a TC built on a Linux software switch.
> 
> So you mean to say that the router can not be used as TC ?

Don't confuse router with switch.

> and also if it is been used then the performance won't be good as when
> used with switch ? 

What I meant was that a mutli-homed, general purpose computer running
Linux can be used as a poor-man's switch. This could be extended with
TC functionality, but probably the result would not be acceptable WRT
the normal switching performance.

HTH,
Richard