[time-nuts] Re: Network interface cards that support timestamping

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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John Miller via time-nuts writes:

> Does anyone here know if any other network cards that support
> software defined pins, like the i210 does, or any other methods for
> getting a PPS signal to be fed into a PC, and of course interpreted
> correctly?

We used Intel '599 chip based cards in the ELT adaptive optics prototype
compute cluster, and it has both hardware timestamping of packets and
a couple of external signals.

Unfortunately the boards we used had not wired those external signals
to anything reachable by me.

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