Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Schedule announce TX timeout also when in slave-only mode

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

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Delio Brignoli wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> > 
> > I believe it's in order to know that the node is asCapable.. I know at
> > least one switch which will ignore a port unless it receives an announce
> > from it that indicates it's asCapable...
> 
> 
> According to the standard the peer delay messages exchange is used to establish if a peer is asCapable.

Yes, that is true, but still Jacob's example underscores the need to
have a gPTP node always transmit announce messages.

Thanks,
Richard