[ntar-workers] Timestamp resolution: if_tsaccur option unclear!

Loris Degioanni loris.degioanni at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 15:27:28 GMT 2005


Guy Harris wrote:

> 
>> BTW: The starting sentence "Precision of timestamps" is a bit
>> misleading, as the if_tsaccur option will only affect the lower 32 bit
>> part of the timestamp, according to the packet block format description.
>> "Precision of Timestamp (Low)" might be better.
> 
> 
> Perhaps, although the upper portion of the time stamp is always in 
> seconds, and one could think of the precision field specifying the 
> precision of the combination of the upper and lower portions of the tie 
> stamp field.
> 

Maybe I don't understand well this sentence. Do you mean there could be 
something different from seconds for the high part? Otherwise, the 
precision of the low part always applies to the whole timestamp too.

Loris


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