Re: [Linuxptp-users] 3.1.1 -> 4.0 evolution?

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

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 05:37:10PM +0200, jmfriedt wrote:

> Is there a
> rationale for preventing out of the box linuxptp from working with both
> PTP 2.0 and 2.1 packets, since changing the constant in the header file
> seems to make the protocol operational again?

linuxptp works with both ptp v2.0 and v2.1 frames.

Your hardware is rejecting v2.1 frames based on a field that is reserved in v2.0

Probably reserved fields should be ignored by PTP clients.

That seems to be the expectation from the PTP standards.


Thanks,
Richard