Re: [Linuxptp-users] Announce Receipt Timeout Events

[Keller, J. E <jac...@in...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cochran [mailto:ric...@gm...]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 9:47 PM
> To: David Mirabito <da...@me...>
> Cc: lin...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Linuxptp-users] Announce Receipt Timeout Events
> 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:14:21PM +1000, David Mirabito wrote:
> > We can stop the resets by adding `logAnnounceInterval 3` to the client
> > config to match the master, which we could consider a fix,

> > * Since the Announce message contains the master's logAnnounceInterval (as
> > logMessageInterval), clients would wait their receiptTimeout multiples of
> > *that* time before complaining, otherwise we see this scenario where the
> > master explicitly says "I will announce every 8 seconds" and a client with
> > default config will be unhappy when a new announcement doesn't come within
> > 6 seconds.
> 
> Although one could imagine the client to read the interval from the
> Announce message, there is nothing in 1588 that mandates this
> behavior.
> 

Would it make sense for ptp4l to at least complain about the values not matching?

Thanks,
Jake