Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] timestamp resolution

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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:33:13 +1100
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> Ethereal's time stamp data types have nanosecond resolution (they have
> 32-bit second and 32-bit nanosecond timings; a different format would
> have to be chosen to get higher resolution).
> 
> We could make Wiretap support nanosecond resolution as well, by
> multipying microsecond values by 1000.

Which file format could we save these in? I guess we are not
really free to create new variants of the pcap format.


thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>