I’m setting up a network with devices that required a constant and traceable clock sync to UTC, so we’re using a GPS-based PTP clock server. For the network, I’m using a netPower 16P running RouterOS. All of the time-sensitive devices are plugged into its RJ45 ports, I’ve enabled PTP, and it just works! We get sub-microsecond time synchronization to global time.
However, if our GPS clock server drops out (e.g. because it loses the GPS signal), the netPower switch assumes the role of grandmaster. This is unacceptable for our application. Other applications only care about local time syncronization, but I need to maintain a constant sync to global time. I cannot find a way to force the switch to client-only (transparent) mode.
Has MikroTik not yet implemented this feature?