Re: [Linuxptp-users] PTP through a bridge interface

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

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0000, Rob Cornall wrote:
> And our DSA is setup as a 'dumb' switch, all unknown DA frames are flooded out all ports.

In that case, just don't load the DSA driver and don't create a Linux
bridge device.
 
> When seeing the slave adjusting its ptp clock this leads me to think everything works okay with this patch? Is this something that could be added as an option to ptp4l and merged in the future to support linux sw bridges?

No, that will never work.

Consider the simple case where you take two PTP capable MACs and then
join them together into a bridge.

Thanks,
Richard