Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Aruba and PTP (IEEE 1588)

Hey,

anybody have Experience/Knowledge with Aruba Switches and PTP (Transparent) IEEE 1588?

In my case I have some Broadcast equipment need to use PTP in two Racks. I had a look for the 2930M Series Aruba announce them as PTP Compatible but if you have a closer look it says:

¹ IEEE 1588v2 (PTP) is not supported on the following 2930M models: JL323A, JL324A, R0M67A, R0M68A or 2930M modules: JL325A, JL078A, JL081A, JL083A

For the Switches that is OK, I do not need the Smartrate features. But if the Modules (Only way to get SFP+) do not support P2P how are you suppose to operate PTP in the whole Network?

As far as I see it each switch at it own would only handly PTP but will not forward it over the Module Uplink ? In Theory could I "Cheat" and do a Trunk SFP 1Gig? and A trunk with SFP+ 10G and only let the management network VLAN + default VLAN go over 1G (PTP included) and all other VLAN over 10G wouldnt that in theory work?



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