On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 10:57 +0100, Delio Brignoli wrote: >> On Dec 1, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Richard Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2. What is the point of the slave only node's announce messages? >>> >>> [ The announce messages will not affect the outcome of the peer's >>> BMC election, except to make it slower. ] >> >> >> Knowing the node exists and it is a slave I guess... >> > > I believe it's in order to know that the node is asCapable.. I know at > least one switch which will ignore a port unless it receives an announce > from it that indicates it's asCapable...
According to the standard the peer delay messages exchange is used to establish if a peer is asCapable. -- Delio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
