No, NTP is a different protocol altogether. NTP runs on top of IP. IEEE-1588 runs on the side IP and needs at least support in the driver layer - if not the hardware layer! NTP is supposed to be used over the wide area network. IEEE-1588 is for local area networks - mostly ethernet. NTP relies on IP for routing to other networks, IEEE-1588 relies on "boundary" clocks between the networks, i.e. the routers have IEEE-1588 implemented. Take a look at http://ieee1588.nist.gov/ (Ethereal is mentioned as understanding IEEE-1588 :-) Esben On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 23 August 2004 03:51, Esben Nielsen wrote: > >Does anyone know about that standard for time syncronization? Is > > there any work on Linux-support? > > > >Esben > > Sure. There is ntpdate, intended for gross corrections at boot time, > and ntp, which finetunes things if you need microsecond accuracy all > day long. I don't, so I just run ntpdate at boot time and 4x a day > with cron against 4 servers chosen at random from a list of 33, using > a script and a list of servers someone posted years ago now. > > Both are installed in a normal full install, but not this script. ntp > as I understand it needs configured before its used, but it can be > run from /etc/init.d by turning it on with chkconfig once its > configured. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
