Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] arrival timestamps

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From: "Maxim Ksyunz" <mksyunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:28:13 -0600
Hello,

I was wondering as to how trustworthy are the arrival timestamps in
ethereal for windows (meaning how and when in the frame processing are
they added and what's their accuracy). How about ethereal for linux?

I tried to use ethereal for windows for capturing frames generated by my
utility (it sends 62 byte frames 5000 times/sec) and got really wierd
results - in 1000 frames about 5 have delta from the previous frame of
5-10 microseconds which is nuts (I'm sending over 10baseT and it should
take at least 49.6 microseconds (=62*8/10 000 000) to transfer a packet
between 2 machines).


Max