PTP Packet Capture

Enhanced PTP User Guide (UG1602)

Document ID

UG1602

Release Date

2023-04-07

Revision

1.1 English

Enabling the following option in the configuration file will display the contents of PTP packets sent and received by the sfptpd process:

ptp_pkt_dump

Important: This option produces extensive output for each received PTP packet, as the following example of a PTP SYNC message demonstrates, and should only be used for debugging purposes.

2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: messageType 0
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: versionPTP 2
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: messageLength 44
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: domainNumber 0
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: flags 02 00
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: correctionfield 0
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: sourcePortIdentity.clockIdentity 000f:53ff:fe16:0474
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: sourcePortIdentity.portNumber 1
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: sequenceId 94
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: controlField 0
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugHeader: logMessageInterval 0
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugSync: originTimestamp.seconds 1356029129
2012-12-20 18:45:29.496035 msgDebugSync: originTimestamp.nanoseconds 856792000

Note: This is different to using tcpdump which will capture packets received/sent at an interface.