Artel Quarra 1G / 10G AES67 PTP Setup Guide (Transparent Clock)
This guide makes the assumtion that the E-IPA card will be PTP grandmaster and is using the E-IPA’s default protocol settings (pictured below)
If using an external GM or custom protocol settings, make sure these differences are reflected in the PTP Clock Configuration section of this guide.
Configurtion → Green Ethernet → Port Power Savings:
Uncheck Power Saving for all ports connected to ClearCom devices
Click ‘Save’
Configuration → IPMC → IGMP Snooping → Basic Configuration:
Check ‘Snooping Enabled’, ‘Leave Proxy Enabled’ and ‘Proxy Enabled’
Click ‘Save’
Configuration → IPMC → IGMP Snooping → VLAN Configuration:
Click ‘Add New IGMP VLAN’
Check ‘Snooping Enabled’
Check ‘Querier Election’
Select ‘Forced IGMPv2’ under Compatibility
Click ‘Save’
Configuration → QoS → QoS Ingress Port Classification:
Check ‘DSCP Based’ for all ports
Click ‘Save’
Configuration → QoS → DSCP-Based QoS Ingress Classification:
Change the ‘QoS Class’ values for ‘DSCP 34 (AF31)', and 'DSCP 46 (EF)’ to 4 and 7 respectively.
Check the ‘Trust’ box for both DSCP 34 and 46
Configuration → PTP → PTP Clock Configuration:
Click ‘Add New PTP Clock’
Select ‘E2eTransp' from the 'Device Type’ dropdown menu
Click ‘Save’
Configuration → PTP → PTP Clock Configuration:
Click the ‘Clock Instance’ of the new clock (Clock Instance 0 in this example) in order to open this ‘PTP Clock’s Configuation and Staus’ page and ammend settings under each header below
‘Port Enable and Confiuration’ : Check all ports that need to subscribe to PTP
‘Clock Default DataSet’ :
‘2 Step Flag’ = ‘True’
‘Dom’ = '0'
‘Protocol' = 'IPv4Multi’
‘DSCP’ = ‘46’
Click ‘Save’
Maintainance → Configuration → Save Startup-config:
Click ‘Save Configuration’ to make these changes persist after power cycle.