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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by throw0101a on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:27AM (#28143165)
> but it seems the switches typically don't support unicast PTP.

Doing a quick search, the documentation for Cisco, Arista, and Juniper all mention unicast PTP, so it may be the feature is becoming more prevalent.

See also "Enterprise Profile for the Precision Time Protocol With Mixed Multicast and Unicast Messages":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tictoc-ptp-...

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Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance by mlichvar on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @12:48PM (#28144452)
The unicast PTP support can be limited to boundary clocks and the enterprise profile doesn't require transparent clocks to support the unicast mode.

Also, there are different types of PTP transparent clocks. They can either be end-to-end or peer-to-peer, and either one-step or two-step clocks. To be useful for NTP, I think it would need to be an end-to-end transparent clock and ideally it would be a one-step clock to avoid dealing with with the follow-up messages.

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