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A PTP Boundary or Ordinary clock synchronizes to the master clock through the reception of the PTP event packets. To reconfigure clocks to a different domain, the existing configuration must be deleted. The Boundary and Ordinary clocks can be configured to operate on a single PTP domain.
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Enable or disable the Boundary or Ordinary clock, use the
following commands:
enable network-clock ptp [boundary | ordinary]disable network-clock ptp [boundary | ordinary]
Note
After you enable a boundary clock, you cannot create an ordinary clock. However, you can delete the boundary clock instance and create a new one in order to change the domain number.To create an ordinary clock instance in the switch that has the boundary clock instance enabled, delete the boundary clock instance, save the configuration and reboot the switch. After the reboot, you can create and enable the ordinary clock instance. Similarly, to create and enable a boundary clock in a switch that has an ordinary clock enabled, delete the ordinary clock instance, save the configuration and reboot the switch. After the reboot you can create and enable a boundary clock. The following message is displayed when you create the boundary clock instance in a device with no prior clock instances:Warning: The ordinary clock cannot be created after enabling the boundary clock. A delete followed by save and reboot are required to create the ordinary clock.
After you enable a boundary clock instance, if you delete the instance and try to create an ordinary clock instance, the above message is displayed as an error, and the ordinary clock instance is not created.