Tc General - Siemens SCALANCE XM-400 Configuration Manual

1588 Mode
You can make the following settings:
● off
The device does not process any PTP messages. PTP messages are, however, forwarded
according to the rules of the switch.
● transparent
The device adopts the function of a transparent clock and forwards PTP messages to other
nodes while at the same time making entries in the correction field of the PTP message.
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TC General

TC General
On this tab, you will find the general settings for PTP.
1588 Transparent Clock Configuration
Delay Mechanism
Specify the delay mechanism the device will work with:
● end to end
(Delay request response mechanism will be used)
Note
With end-to-end synchronization with more than 2 slaves, freak values > 100 ns can occur
in the offset.
● peer to peer
(Peer delay mechanism will be used)
Domain Number
Enter the domain number for the device here. The device ignores PTP messages with a
different domain number. A SCALANCE device can only be assigned to one synchronization
domain.
SCALANCE XM-400/XR-500 Web Based Management (WBM)
Configuration Manual, 05/2017, C79000-G8976-C248-12
Configuring with Web Based Management
5.5 The "Layer 2" menu
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