Disregard my reply. I confused this thread with the other one related to 
strange reception delays.

Have a nice day
GV


From: Gianluca Varenni 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:51 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] timestamping and huge latency


He is measuring the delay between two consecutive packets. Lack of sync between 
transmitter and receiver clocks would not cause those delays.

GV


From: "Fish" (David B. Trout) 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:30 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] timestamping and huge latency


Another thing: if the sending and receiving/capturing systems' clocks are not 
synchronized with each other, then how are you measuring the supposed latency 
between sending and receiving/capturing?

 

That is to say, if the two clocks are not synchronized with one another, then 
normal clock drift would completely invalidate your measured latency in my 
opinion.

 

Are the two system's clocks synchronized with one another?

 

If they're not then there's your answer.

 

 

 

p.s. if/when you do synchronize them with each other, remember to ensure that 
either: a) neither or them synchronizes with an external clock, or: b) only ONE 
of them does! (but not both!)  The same rule applies to the Windows Time 
Service too: disable it on both or else ensure the one with it enabled is 
configured as the "time server".  Otherwise your results would once again be 
completely invalid/inconclusive.

-- 
  "Fish"  (David B. Trout) 
    [email protected]

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Helmut Vaupotitsch
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Winpcap-users] timestamping and huge latency
Importance: High

 

Hi Gianluca and all others,

I am facing a major latency problem on *long lasting* capture sessions which 
maybe 
has to do with timestamping by the driver, every hint to solve it is 
appreciated:

We developed a proprietary protocol to configure, manage and monitor 
our self-developed hardware, the config software uses WinPCap to capture and 
send raw packets.

Everything is working fine, but after some days of continuous capturing i face:
- On some machines, the latency between sending requests and receiving the 
answer 
  increases to some seconds (can be up to >30 secs after capturing for a week!)
Closing and re-opening the driver would solve the problem, but i definitely 
need to capture
for months and longer without interrupt!

I know that the driver timestamp is drifting apart from the System Time(which 
can be
synchronized by e.g. a NTP server), therefore i timestamp the frames my 
myself(which 
is also important if a use timeouts)

My question is:
What could be the reason(s) for huge latency on long lasting captures?
I know that the latency increases on receiving packets
Currently i don´t know if sending´s latency also increases
Maybe it has something to do with the GetSystemTimeAdjustment setting?


Thanks for reading

Best regards from Austria
Helmut


Gianluca Varenni schrieb: 

The return value of QuerySystemTime and QueryPerformanceCounter is synchronized 
at the beginning of the capture (to compute the offset between epoch time and 
QueryPerformanceCounter), and then the counter and frequency returned by QPC 
are used to compute the number of seconds (and microseconds) and added to the 
offset. The timestamping code is available in the source code of WinPcap, 
winpcap\packetntx\driver\time_calls.h Have a nice dayGV   
--------------------------------------------------From: "Jan Martinec" 
<[email protected]>Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:23 AMTo: 
<[email protected]>Subject: [Winpcap-users] timestamp   Hello!I've got 
a question about timestamping method. I know that a timestampis got using 
method QueryPerformanceCounter (resp.keQueryPerformanceCounter), which is a 
number of ticks of Performancecounter. But timestamp is by Winpcap returned in 
"Seconds since Epoch"format. So how is the recomputation done? Thank you very 
much Best regards,Jan Martinec  
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