[ntp-GSoC] Query regarding GSoC

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Mon Apr 2 15:35:49 UTC 2012


On Mar 24, 2012, at 22:48 , Himanshu Singh wrote:

> Hi
> 
>> Just figured out that I was using an old branch - ptpd-2.1.1. Now, I guess
> that latest commits to branch 'trunk'  have already handled the management
> messages ('handleManagement', 'issueManagement' etc have already been
> implemented) and we only need write a client to create management packets
> and send these to server running pptd and listening for management messages.
> 

That's correct.

> I was able to run PTPd on two computers and use management features with
> "-k" flag in branches/trunk.old repository. But "-k" flag is not working
> with "trunk" since startup.c does not define any case for 'k' flag.
> However, trunk contains more updated management handling (in management.c)
> than 'trunk.old'. So, which branch should be used for the test setup?
> 

The messages have completely changed in the latest version and the -k flag is being
deprecated.  The trunk/ branch is the one you want to look at for testing.

Best,
George



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