Re: SIOCGSTAMP does not work ?

[Alex Riesen]

Maciej Soltysiak, Tue, Jan 21, 2003 18:03:34 +0100:
> > > i was recently trying to use SIOCGSTAMP to get the date of the last packet
> > > that arrived on the socket. like so:
> >
> > which kernel?
> 2.4.20
> 
> If you can, please try to get the timestamp on any socket using.
> 
> struct timeval tv;
> ...
> ioctl (s, SIOCGSTAMP, &tv);
> 

sorry for delay.

I don't think SIOCGSTAMP was designed to work on "any socket".
It retrieves the timestamp correctly for PF_PACKET sockets though.
I may want to look at the libpcap source.

-alex