Support for hardware timestamps
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Description
It would be nice if Npcap could support hardware timestamps.
See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/overview-of-ndis-packet-timestamping
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Microsoft documentation on NDIS packet timestamping and inspect Npcap's existing packet-timestamp handling. Determine the required hardware-timestamp support and its integration points; done means Npcap can expose hardware timestamps correctly on supported Windows network adapters.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100