Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Date/Time stamp problem.

[Norman Beasley <Norman_J_Beasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:01:07PM -0700, Norman Beasley wrote:
>> I am seeing a date/time issue with the captured information.
>
> Date and time stamps come from libpcap, which gets them from the
> underlying capture mechanism; if you're getting bad date/time stamps,
> that's a problem with the underlying capture mechanism.
>
> If you're capturing on Windows, try capturing with WinDump and, if the
> same problem occurs, report it as a WinPcap problem:
>
>        http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
>
> If you're capturing on some flavor of UNIX, ask the supplier of the UNIX
> system about it (note that you're using libpcap).
>

Guy Harris wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:31:26PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > If you're capturing on Windows, try capturing with WinDump and, if the
> > same problem occurs, report it as a WinPcap problem:
> >
> >       http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
>
> But if you're capturing on Windows 95, 98, or Me and have WinPcap 2.3
> installed, don't bother reporting it - they already know about it, and
> it'll be fixed in a future release of WinPcap.

Thanks Guy for the information on the time stamp problem I'm having.

I'm using WinPcap 2.3; so I will have to wait for the fix.  Just as an
FYI the time delta is approx. negative 32 hours, 34 minutes, 10 seconds.
--
Norman