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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:38:20 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c 
Message-ID:  <200607241838.aa38962@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:51:20 CDT." <44C4EC78.8060401@FreeBSD.org> 

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> Thanks for taking care of this! It is not very desirable for the same 
> packet to have different timestamps associated with it across different 
> bpf peers. It certainly could cause a problem if people are using 
> timestamps to correlate events from different programs on the same system.

Indeed - calling microtime more than necessary and generating
inconsistent timestamps just didn't seem good.

I think jkim@ has interesting work related to this that might allow
us to exploit hardware that does hardware timestamping of packets.
It is some way down the road though.

	David.



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