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

[Akhil N. <akh...@tc...>]

Dear Richard,
Thank you for clearing the doubt.
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 07:57 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Is there any way to configure TC on above mentioned multi-homed,
general purpose computer running with linux as a Transparent Clock if
the performance is not a main concern ?
> HTH,
> Richard
> 

Thanks and Regards

-- 
Akhil Nair <akh...@tc...>

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