[ntp:questions] NTP timestamps

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Wed May 26 21:16:08 UTC 2010


David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> wrote:
> It is there.  It is at the very front of the tcpdump output; i.e. it
> is the timestamp of the tcpdump capture.  The only way you could do
> better is with debug code in ntpd itself.

Well, you could use the timestamp of the system call trace of ntpd
calling recvfrom() on the socket :) Or I suppose its call (does it
make one?) to gettimeofday() just afterwards. 

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