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Chapter 3 Operations
GM2 GrandMaster
master clocks, a rule-hierarchy is defined in IEEE-1588 which uses Announce
messages received from both candidate masters and compares information to
determine which of the two clocks is preferred. Details of the comparison algorithm
are beyond the scope of this document, but can be seen in Figure 27 of
IEEE Std
1588
™
-2008.
The show status query shows which of the candidate masters (if any) is currently
being used as the synchronization reference. See
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