[ovs-discuss] Capturing timestamp in a switch

[Justin Pettit]

> On Oct 18, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Ajeeth Kannan (RIT Student) <ak5378 at rit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I would like to get the timestamp for the packets that are being captured by an OVS. Is there any possible command to do it or should I need to modify the OVS code to do this ?
> 
> Should I query the DB or flow-tables to get the timestamps of the captured packets ? 

What do you mean by capturing packets?  OVS doesn't capture packets, but you can use something like sFlow or IPFIX to send packets to a collector.  I think those will have timestamps associated with them.

--Justin