[Ethereal-users] Improving Ethereal timestamp accuracy

[ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi folks,

I have noticed in some of my experiments that the packet timestamp in
Ethereal is not very accurate. For example, when packets are arriving
rapidly, the timestamp in Ethereal is sometimes identical (to the
micro-second) over 10-20 packets.

I saw online a few other folks discussing this issue, but nothing that
really explained clearly why the timestamp is inaccurate, and if
anything can be done to improve it.

In these particular experiments, I'm running Ethereal on Fedora Core 3
(Linux 2.6) and Redhat 7.2 (Linux 2.4).

Can someone explain the source of the inaccuracy? And perhaps some ideas
for improvement?

Thanks,
Adam