[time-nuts] A (slightly) different apu2 question

[Paul]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Wojciech Owczarek <wojciech at owczarek.co.uk>
wrote:

> ... waste what's
> left by then retransmitting it via NTP with software timestamping. I am not
> saying that there is anything wrong with NTP, just that software packet
> transmission and receipt timestamps ruin both precision and accuracy.
>

NTP does not require softstamps.  NTP can be (and I believe it has been in
a product) modified to use "PTP" hardware (hardstamps) and  reasonably
current releases can run with "drivestamps" (sampled in the NIC driver)
between cooperating endpoints.