On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:27:22PM +0200, Ray Vanbeek wrote:
> Running ptp4l as a slave, what influences the rate at which Delay Request
> Messages are sent out? Pretty standard, the GM send out Announce Messages
> every 2 secs, Sync and Follow_Up Messages every second.
> The slave sends out Delay Request Messages irregular:  ranging from <1 sec
> to 16 sec between subsequent messages. The GM always responds immediately
> to a DelayReq.

That's a feature of PTP. Clients are required to randomize their
interval of delay requests in order to minimize collisions at the server.

If you see the interval reaching 16 seconds, that means
logMinDelayReqInterval is 3 on the server.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar



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