PTP?

[Imnot A Robot]

Hello all,

I need to know if my NIC's support PTP hardware time stamping and a clock but it does not look like there's a PTPd.

Is there a freebsd equivalent of ethtool -T em0 ?

Ultimately this is to see if I can use OPNsense for long distance transmission of precision-clocked multichannel audio.


Thank you

[iMx]

Never used, nor had any need to personally, but it looks like you can just install ptpd from ports?

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ptpd2&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.2-RELEASE+and+Ports

https://www.freshports.org/net/ptpd2/

opnsense ports docs:

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/software_included.html#the-ports-tree

However, it would appear there is no hardware based support:

As of 2.3.1, PTPd still does not   support    hardware  timestamping.  This
       functionality  will appear in the upcoming version 2.4 -   potentially an
       interim version of 2.3.x   may be delivered that  will  support  hardware
       clocks  and timestamping   on Linux. This is very much OS-specific   and to
       a large extent, hardware-specific. Linux   has a PTP kernel API  but  not
       all hardware supports it.  Because PTPd supports   multiple OS platforms,
       where hardware timestamping may use different mechanisms   on every plat-
       form,  it  has  to be re-written   in a modular way to allow this without
       unnecessarily increasing   code complexity, which already is a problem.

source: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ptpd2&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports#end

[Imnot A Robot]

Thanks for the reply iMx. That is what I suspected. Maybe I'll briefly run Puppy on the appliance so that I can run ethtool -T.