Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] patch to packet-tcp.c to display up times if timestamps

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:08:19 -0700
Charles Levert wrote:

Since not all OSes use a 100 Hz aka 10 ms clock,

And, as per your note, not all OSes even put an uptime in there.

Perhaps there should be some protocol preference settings for the TCP dissector, a Boolean indicating whether to interpret it as an uptime, defaulting to TRUE, and an integer preference indicating the frequency of the clock, defaulting to 100.