On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 06:27:42AM +1100, mgrosve...@gmail.com wrote:

> Furthermore, some switches (Eg Arista and and Cisco) use the CRC to convey 
> timestamps in packets.

If that is true, then their device drivers should strip off the time
stamp and provide it via the SO_TIMESTAMPING mechanism.

> It would be absolutely necessary to be able to see the “CRC” for this this 
> use case, on the same interface that PTP traffic traverses, even if PTP 
> traffic itself is unaffected. 

No, that is not correct.  No user software ever expects to see time
stamps bolted on randomly.  There is a proper time stamping API for
that.

Thanks,
Richard


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