TOI Author :: Mohammed Alfatafta

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) management messages are general PTP messages sent to PTP-enabled switches on the data plane. On Arista switches, its behavior depends on the configured PTP mode. In Boundary Clock mode, they are handled by the control plane. In Transparent Clock mode, they are forwarded in the data plane. PTP management messages can be sent through the PTP network either in a multicast or unicast fashion (by using ptp forward unicast, see Forwarding Unicast PTP Packets in Boundary Mode).