Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Improving Ethereal timestamp accuracy

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From: LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 03:07:33 +0100
On 2/6/06, ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have noticed in some of my experiments that the packet timestamp in
> Ethereal is not very accurate. For example, when packets are arriving
> rapidly, the timestamp in Ethereal is sometimes identical (to the
> micro-second) over 10-20 packets.
>  [snip]
> Can someone explain the source of the inaccuracy? And perhaps some ideas
> for improvement?

The kernel provides timestamps that are in miliseconds. So that's what
ethereal gets.


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