Re: [Linuxptp-users] offset explosion and irregular phc offsets

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

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:53:56PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:22 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:54:56PM +0100, Julien Houles wrote:
> > > On board 1 :
> > > ptp4l -i p37p1 -m -P
> > > phc2sys -s p37p1 -O 0 -m
> >              ^^^^^
> > Can you explain this strange looking interface name?
> > 
> > Why isn't it called eth0?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> 
> Richard,
> 
> This is the standard for recent Fedora based systems, they do "pXpY"
> where X represents seperate devices, and Y represents ports on that
> device. Using rules, it ensures that if you install or swap an ethernet
> device you always get a new unique name instead of one you already had.

So Julien has 37 separate devices?
 
> It's been this way for at least the last 2 releases.

(We debian users just don't know what we are missing ;)

Richard