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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 98f71a5cef00..073894d1c093 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ capture network traffic with utilities like tcpdump or any other that needs raw access to network interface. You can find the latest version of this document at: - http://pusa.uv.es/~ulisses/packet_mmap/ + http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmap Howto can be found at: http://wiki.gnu-log.net (packet_mmap) @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ support for PACKET_MMAP, and also probably the libpcap included in your distribu I'm aware of two implementations of PACKET_MMAP in libpcap: - http://pusa.uv.es/~ulisses/packet_mmap/ (by Simon Patarin, based on libpcap 0.6.2) + http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/ (by Simon Patarin, based on libpcap 0.6.2) http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/ (by Phil Wood, based on lastest libpcap) The rest of this document is intended for people who want to understand @@ -493,6 +493,32 @@ The user can also use poll() to check if a buffer is available: pfd.events = POLLOUT; retval = poll(&pfd, 1, timeout); +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ PACKET_TIMESTAMP +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The PACKET_TIMESTAMP setting determines the source of the timestamp in +the packet meta information. If your NIC is capable of timestamping +packets in hardware, you can request those hardware timestamps to used. +Note: you may need to enable the generation of hardware timestamps with +SIOCSHWTSTAMP. + +PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as +SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE +and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are recognized by +PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set. + + int req = 0; + req |= SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE; + setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, (void *) &req, sizeof(req)) + +If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside +the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was added). + +See include/linux/net_tstamp.h and Documentation/networking/timestamping +for more information on hardware timestamps. + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + THANKS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |