On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:57:14AM -0600, Bassam Alsanie wrote:
> 
> etherCAT has its own software stack over the physical layer (mostly at the
> data link layer), and I was wondering if I enabled the etherCAT on my
> device, can the linuxptp run over etherCAT software stack?

PTP is either Layer-2, UDP/IPv4, or UDP/IPv6, and so it cannot run
over EtherCAT.

EtherCAT has its own synchronization protocol called "Distributed
Clocks" (DC), and so adding PTP makes no sense at all.

> as the TCP/IP is
> not necessary available when the etherCAT is enabled.

PTP does not use TCP in any way.

> Another question
> would be, does the linuxptp run (and require) on specific OSI software
> layer (such as TCP, UDP or IP)?

See above.

HTH,
Richard

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