RE: Common Encapsulation: Stale Frame Detection in an IP fabric

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

Hi David:

How do you see clock synchronization happening? Does the FCIP end point use
an SNTP handshake?

Charles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:43 PM
> To: cmonia@NishanSystems.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: Common Encapsulation: Stale Frame Detection in 
> an IP fabric
> 
> 
> Question for Charles and the WG:
> 
> This proposal is based on synchronizing each node
> to the same wall clock reference (i.e., SNTP server).
> Is there any interest in just synchronizing the
> timestamps between the two ends of an FCIP link
> without requiring interaction with an external
> time source?
> 
> A possible downside is that an implementation
> that can support multiple FCIP links may need
> to maintain a separate time offset (from its
> internal time source) for each FCIP link.
> 
> NOTE: This is a question and not to be taken
> as a suggestion from a co-chair.
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
>