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### Can displaying root dispersion of NTP packets be extended?

Actually the root dispersion is only displayed wit 4 digits after the decimal point, i.e. 0.1 ms resolution. However, modern NTP servers may provide a better root dispersion. E.g., if only the LSB in the scaled integer of an NTP packet is set then this means ~15 microseconds (0.000015 s) root dispersion, but this is currently displayed as 0.0000 s, even though the value is not 0.

The relevant piece of code seems to be

proto_tree_add_double(ntp_tree, hf_ntp_rootdelay, tvb, 4, 4, rootdelay);


in function dissect_ntp_std() in file dissectors/packet_ntp.c.

I tried to add this as a feature request to bugzilla, but was unable to register with bugzilla. :-(

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### Can displaying root dispersion of NTP packets be extended?

Actually the root dispersion is only displayed wit 4 digits after the decimal point, i.e. 0.1 ms resolution. However, modern NTP servers may provide a better root dispersion. E.g., if only the LSB in the scaled integer of an NTP packet is set then this means ~15 microseconds (0.000015 s) root dispersion, but this is currently displayed as 0.0000 s, even though the value is not 0.

The relevant piece of code seems to be

proto_tree_add_double(ntp_tree, hf_ntp_rootdelay, tvb, 4, 4, rootdelay);


in function dissect_ntp_std() dissect_ntp_std() in file dissectors/packet_ntp.c.

I tried to add this as a feature request to bugzilla, but was unable to register with bugzilla. :-(