This software is an implementation of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) according to IEEE standard 1588 for Linux. The dual design goals are to provide a robust implementation of the standard and to use the most relevant and modern Application Programming Interfaces (API) offered by the Linux kernel. Supporting legacy APIs and other platforms is not a goal.
The software is copyrighted by the authors and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. See the file, COPYING, for details of the license terms.
- Supports hardware and software time stamping via the Linux SO_TIMESTAMPING socket option.
- Supports the Linux PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) subsystem by using the clock_gettime family of calls, including the new clock_adjtimex system call.
- Implements Boundary Clock (BC) and Ordinary Clock (OC).
- Transport over UDP/IPv4, UDP/IPv6, and raw Ethernet (Layer 2).
- Modular design allowing painless addition of new transports and clock servos.
The software development is hosted at Source Forge.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxptp/
Please report any bugs or other issues with the software to the linuxptp-users mailing list.
If you would like to get involved in improving the software, please join the linuxptp-devel mailing list.