Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] dropped packets sniffing gig ethernet

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:36:43 -0800
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:03:40PM -0800, David Erickson wrote:
> Linux is probably not a viable alternative due to the lack of
> timestamp resolution.

If you're running Linux on an x86 box, make sure your kernel is
configured with CONFIG_X86_TSC enabled, so that the time stamp counter
(which the Pentium III has) will be used to provide high-resolution time
stamps.