Re: [Linuxptp-devel] PTP supported profiles.

[Miroslav L. <mli...@re...>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:27:34AM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > Do you think it would be worth adding support for the hybrid
> > multicast/unicast mode, where only delay request and response are
> > unicast, in order to save network traffic in very large networks?
> > If I understand it correctly, this might work without the registration
> > part of the protocol.
> 
> We've got that already, as of v1.6.
> 
>    776f772 Merge the hybrid E2E work.
>    e85cb68 Support hybrid E2E using unicast delay requests and responses.

Awesome, I didn't realize we already have that :). Full unicast
support doesn't seem very useful to me, but maybe I just didn't see
the right use case for it.

Thanks,

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Miroslav Lichvar