Ethereal-dev: R: [ethereal-dev] network time unit

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From: "Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:02:05 +0200
> > network cards use different network time units.  How to find which is
> > used by my card?
> 
> What network cards use network time units at all?
> 
> The time stamps from captures on UNIX-flavored OSes, at least, come from
> the OS, not the card, for all the UNIXes I've dealt with (BSDs, Linux,
> Solaris, Digital UNIX), and probably for most if not all others.
> 
> I have the impression that the same is true for Windows.

Yes.
The timestamp's precision is usually 1 microsecond both in win9x and in winNTx.

Loris.