20.1. AF_PACKET

20.1.1. Introduction

AF_PACKET is a capture interface to the Linux Kernel.

Boolean option to enable hardware timestamping on an interface.

By default the hardware timestamping support is disabled.

Hardware timestamping can lead to issue of the NIC and kernel getting out of sync. See ticket 7585.

af-packet:
  - interface: eth0
    cluster-id: 99
    enable-hwtimestamp: true
    cluster-type: cluster_flow