Re: [Linuxptp-users] help the newb

[David G. <dav...@po...>]

On 08/12/2013 12:55 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 09:34:07PM -0700, David Gravereaux wrote:
>> Once I set the 'transportSpecific' option to 1 that matched the packets
>> being sent to me from the switch ptp4l tried attempting a sync,
> 
> Can you please try it using the AV configuration file?
> 
>    ptp4l -f gPTP.cfg


No luck with that.


>> but now
>> ptp4l spits these malformed packets according to wireshark.  And I'm
>> back to the switch complaining about 'bad headers' again.
> 
> I guess wireshark is noticing the missing follow up information TLV.
> Using the configuration file (or setting option follow_up_info) should
> cure this.


Yes and no.  With follow_up_info=0, it attempts to sync.  No attempt to
sync without it.  Guess I'll be doing more phone calls to Netgear tomorrow


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David Gravereaux <dav...@po...>