I just uploaded a new version of the spec here
http://www.winpcap.org/ntar/draft/PCAP-DumpFileFormat_ts.html
I tried to spedify the timestamps better and renamed if_tsaccur into
if_tsresol.
Let me know if you think it makes more sense.
Have a nice day
GV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcap-ng support
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcap-ng support
Gianluca Varenni schrieb:
What doesn't work:
- timestamps are wrong. There are two problems here:
1. the IDB option for the timestamp precision is not decoded, and I
was generating timestamps with nanosecond precision.
2. timestamps are not in the libpcap fashion (seconds and
microseconds, or seconds and nanoseconds). It's a single 64bit
quantity that is split into high and low 32bits.
Well, I've implemented the first IDB options now in SVN *24133*,
if_tsaccur (only values 6 and 9 for now) and if_fcslen. So both
timestamps and FCS should work ok now.
FCS indeed looks ok, but the timestamps are still odd in icmp2.ntar.
According to
http://www.winpcap.org/ntar/draft/PCAP-DumpFileFormat.html#sectionpb,
the timestamp isn't a 64bit quantity, but the usual pcap way of 32bit
seconds from 1/1/1970 and 32 bits fractional second.
Do I miss something here?
I think the description of timestamp formats is quite bad in the specs.
The timestamps are represented as a 64bit quantity split into high and low
32 bits, that represent the number of microseconds/nanoseconds/??? from
1/1/1970 (that's the meaning of in "in standard unix format i.e. since
1/1/1970").
The reason behind using a single 64bit quantity instead of
seconds/subseconds is twofold:
1. if we use seconds and subseconds, 32bits don't allow to go under the
nanosecond.
2. several hardware-based capture cards represent timestamps as
nanoseconds/microseconds as a single 64bit quantity i.e. they don't split
them into seconds and subseconds.
BTW, there was a discussion on the timestamp format on the ntar-workers
mailing list, here
http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/ntar-workers/2006-March/000122.html
Regards, ULFL
P.S. AFAIK (I'm not a native english speaker), if_tsaccur is actually
the resolution and not the accuracy (as the name implies) nor the
precision (as the text of is_tsaccur implies). Should we change the name
of if_tsaccur to if_tsresol in the spec? Otherwise if we want to add a
accuracy / precision option later (which I think we'll going to need),
these names could get pretty confusing!
I'm not a native english speaker either, but you are probably right.
Anyone
with different thoughts about it?
This change is a breaking change in the NTAR API, but it's ok.
Have a nice day
GV
_______________________________________________
Wireshark-dev mailing list
Wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
_______________________________________________
Wireshark-dev mailing list
Wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
