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Clock synchronization with Chris Perl

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

PTP

The way PTP works is that the grandmaster sends a sync message to everyone. The client receives it and then sends back a multicast request for delay time. And when the grandmaster receives that, it sends out another multicast response. It's actually quadratic. That is not usually a recipe for good algorithmic complexity.

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