Hi Florian
as far as I know, hw timestamps are not supported by Intel 82599.
Could you provide also the output of: 
# lspci | grep Eth
# ethtool -i eth1

Thank you
Alfredo

On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Florian Wohlfart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use the pfring_send_get_time() function to retrieve
> hardware timestamps for outgoing packets. I am using an Intel 82599
> network interface card (ixgbe driver), so HW timestamps are supported:
> 
> # $ ethtool -T eth1
> Time stamping parameters for eth1:
> Capabilities:
>       hardware-transmit     (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE)
>       software-transmit     (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE)
>       hardware-receive      (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_HARDWARE)
>       software-receive      (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE)
>       software-system-clock (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE)
>       hardware-raw-clock    (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE)
> PTP Hardware Clock: 0
> Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes:
>       off                   (HWTSTAMP_TX_OFF)
>       on                    (HWTSTAMP_TX_ON)
> Hardware Receive Filter Modes:
>       none                  (HWTSTAMP_FILTER_NONE)
>       ptpv1-l4-sync         (HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V1_L4_SYNC)
>       ptpv1-l4-delay-req    (HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V1_L4_DELAY_REQ)
>       ptpv2-event           (HWTSTAMP_FILTER_PTP_V2_EVENT)
> 
> 
> 
> When running the following code, I get the error message "Sending error
> -7". The value -7 stands for PF_RING_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED according to
> the pf_ring header file.
> 
> 
>  pfring *pd = pfring_open("eth1", 1500, PF_RING_HW_TIMESTAMP);
>  pfring_enable_ring(pd);
> 
>  u_char buffer[1000];
>  forge_udp_packet(buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
> 
>  struct timespec *ts = NULL;
>  ts = (struct timespec *) malloc(sizeof(struct timespec));
> 
>  //int rc = pfring_send(pd, buffer, send_len, 0);
>  int rc = pfring_send_get_time(pd, buffer, send_len, ts);
>  if (rc < 0) {
>    printf("Sending error %i\n", rc);
>  }
> 
>  pfring_close(pd);
> 
> 
> When replacing the pfring_send_get_time() function with the uncommented
> line above, it works fine. I am using a recent version of pf_ring from
> the SVN repository on Debian Linux (kernel 3.7).
> 
> Do you have any suggestions what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Best regards,
> Florian Wohlfart
> 
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