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Give more details about packet time stamps.
authorGuy Harris <[email protected]>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:17:30 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
committerGuy Harris <[email protected]>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:17:30 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
commit6b6b9f5a79141036ddc75912506c2a91a13e8b9d
treef70450a57805918c735341a87033a266e01df3a4
parent8d66c4e009fe9bc7e618843688a4496db2220a36
Give more details about packet time stamps.

Don't speak of "Ethernet" and "wire", as you might not be sniffing an
Ethernet or, indeed, any form of wired network.

Note that not only could there be a delay between the point at which the
interface is finished receiving the packet and when an interrupt is
delivered (whether due to bus delays, polling rather than immediate
interrupts being used, or delays in the CPU responding to the interrupt,
or more than one of those) but also a delay between the point at which
the kernel responds to the interrupt and the point at which it actually
applies a time stamp to the packet.
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