Subject: Re: tcpdump timestamp accuracy
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Y. Du <ydu@cs.uvic.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/08/2002 13:11:49
Hi,

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:31:34PM -0800, Y. Du wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I used tcpdump3.6 (with pcap0.6) to capture network traffic and the
> > timestamp tcpdump reported only had accuracy 10milli-seconds. Could
> > anybody tell me what the problem is and how to fix it? Thanks a lot!
>
> Why don't you use the tcpdump from the base system ?
> timestamps looks right here.
>

Sorry, I'm new to tcpdump. What do you mean by "from the base system"?

BTW, I guess the problem I encountered is caused by the OS instead of
tcpdump itself, but I still don't know the root of the problem. (I use
Redhat7.2). Thanks for your help!

Yong