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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]>
Thu, 3 Sep 2015 01:58:49 +0000 (18:58 -0700)
commitd6390b26af400a5eab921a4fa8cdeb155fdcf86c
tree85b443fadf7b711b6bade12778b3808950d06feb
parent29abfcd8648aeb99bee8e27839f1bda6b65efb49
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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