[ntp:questions] Ieee 1588

Leon McCalla leonmccalla at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 25 12:50:01 UTC 2016


Ntp is the standard for Internet (WAN) time. With all its filters and fancy math calculations, it shouldn't be too difficult to add 1588 IEEE operations on the LAN. I know the protocols for exchanging the data is different but the principles are very similar.

Any thoughts on merging the two? In the ntp.conf file we could do something like "server bigben.local ptp" or "broadcast ptp" where ptp is the new argument to enable 1588 compliance on the LAN segment.

Just conversation. Im not a programmer and i cant afford to pay anyone.

Leon


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