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by itchyouch 4244 days ago
It's a hard problem, but it's not insurmountable. Most places are getting these measurements by using PTP with hardware timestamping. Solarflare has NIC offerings where the packets are hardware timestamped on the wire regardless of the queueing that occurs on the internal socketbuffer with that data being available through several special metachannels.