Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Slightly OT: Time precision

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From: "Daniele Brevi" <danibrevi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:05:27 +0200
Hi at all,

I'm try to understand the precision of packets timestamp that I have
captured with ethereal.
Googling I undestand that this value doesn't depend by etheral but by
libpcap. But also this depend by timestamp added to packet by BPF. This
value (if I understand better) is read (in unix system) by gettimeofday().
So if all this it's true the precision of timestamp is the same of
gettimeofday() that should be 1 microsencond. This also because 'my' traffic
has not very high throughput and so my PC 'doesn't find difficult' capture
and timestamp packets.

It seems my reasoning is right?

Thanks in advance and sorry for english;-)

Daniele