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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, initially developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in a more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
