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1.2.3 PTP Status
The PTP status pane gives a short summary of the PTP status for the different devices in the
network. Information such as device state, PTP version, Delay Mechanism and GPS
information can be found here. Further details regarding PTP management is performed in
the PTPv2Browser which is embedded in IPSet. This overview is useful for verifying that the
devices have compatible configuration.
Table column
Description
MAC Address
MAC address of the PTP CPU
PTP IP Address
IP Address of the PTP CPU
PTP State
PTP state of the device.
Valid states: MASTER, SLAVE, INITIALIZING, PASSIVE,
UNCALIBRATED
PTP Delay Mechanism
PTP Delay mechanism.
Valid states are: End to End or Peer to Peer
PTP Version
PTP version 2 equals IEEE1588-2008
PTP Version 1 equals IEEE1588-2002
Two Step
False = One Step (Time stamps are inserted on the fly on
event messages)
True = Two step operation (The event messages are time
stamped and time information is updated in general
messages)
GPS Enabled
Enabled = PTP stack will synchronize to GPS. Requires that
a GPS antenna is connected to work.
GPS Short circuited
Indicates that the GPS antenna is short circuited. This
situation must be resolved at once or else the GPS receiver
might be damaged.
GPS Sync
The PTP stack is synchronized to GPS time.
GPS Lock
The GPS receiver has lock to satellites. The GPS receiver
has sufficient reception in order to synchronize to GPS time,
but is not necessarily synchronized to GPS. See GPS sync.
