States Of Ports - Cisco ASR 9000 Series User Configuration Manual

Configuring PTP
• Clock Selection: G.8265.1 profile also defines an alternate Best Master Clock Algorithm (BMCA) to
• Port State Decision: The ports are statically configured to be Master or Slave instead of using FSM to
• Packet Rates: The packet rates higher than rates specified in the IEEE 1588-2008 standard are used.
• Transport Mechanism: G.8265.1 profile only supports IPv4 PTP transport mechanism.
• Mode: G.8265.1 profile supports transport of data packets only in unicast mode.
• Clock Type: G.8265.1 profile only supports Ordinary Clock-type (a clock with only one PTP port).
• Domain Numbers: The domain numbers that can be used in a G.8265.1 profile network ranges from 4
• Port Numbers: All PTP port numbers can only be 1 because all clocks in a this profile network are
G.8265.1 profile defines an alternate algorithm to select between different master clocks based on the local
priority given to each master clock and their quality levels (QL). This profile also defines Packet Timing
Signal Fail (PTSF) conditions to identify the master clocks that do not qualify for selection. They are:
• PTSF-lossSync condition: Raised for master clocks that do not receive a reliable stream of Sync and
• PTSF-lossAnnounce condition: Raised for master clocks that do not receive a reliable stream of Announce
• PTSF-unusable condition: Raised for master clocks that receives a reliable stream of Announce, Sync,

States of Ports

State machine indicates the behavior of each port. The possible states are:
• INIT – Port is not yet ready to participate in PTP.
• LISTENING – First state when a port becomes ready to participate in PTP: port listens for PTP masters
• PRE-MASTER – The port is about to go into MASTER state.
• MASTER – The port is provides timestamps for any listening slave/boundary clocks.
select port states and clocks is defined for the profile. This profile also requires to receive Sync messages
(and optionally, Delay-Response messages) to qualify a clock for selection.
dynamically set port states.
They are:
◦ Sync/Follow-Up Packets: Rates from 128 packets-per-second to 16 seconds-per-packet.
◦ Delay-Request/Delay-Response Packets: Rates from 128 packets-per-second to 16
seconds-per-packet.
◦ Announce Packets: Rates from 8 packets-per-second to 64 packets-per-second.
to 23. The default domain number is 4.
Ordinary Clocks.
Delay-Resp messages. Cisco IOS XR software requests Sync and Delay-Resp grants for each configured
master clock to track the master clock with this condition.
messages.
and Delay-Resp messages, but not usable by slave clocks. Cisco IOS XR software does not use this
condition.
for a (configurable) period of time.
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