On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:21:57PM -0400, Dylan Robinson wrote: > I feel bad for how I communicated.
np, I also want to apologize because after re-reading the thread, I was indeed projecting an "ulterior motive" onto your posts. Your summary of the different standards is helpful, and I think it supports the conclusion that appending proprietary stuff onto frames is not allowed by 802.3. Some vendors feel free to tack on whatever they want, and some have argued on this list that that must be accepted. But there I must push back and say that such frames are quite simply corrupted. PTP already foresees vendor extensions using appended TLVs. If I understood correctly, your device will accept frames with extra cruft but then sanitize them before forwarding by removing the extraneous bytes. IMO that is a reasonable policy for network equipment, because your customers might be stuck with third party devices that generate corrupt frames. However, for linuxptp I want the code to be correct and free of vendor specific workarounds for buggy hardware. People can always patch the code to their taste. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Linuxptp-devel mailing list Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel
