On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:

22:28:11.223581 IP 55.225.18.7.9002 > 55.225.18.5.9002: UDP, length 32
22:28:11.223678 IP 55.225.18.5.9002 > 55.225.18.7.9002: UDP, length 32

See how the answer is *very* slow ? Something like > 100 us ?

If you run tcpdump then you create some overhead I guess. 100 usec should
show up as latencies > 50usec in the report.

The latency request includes the timestamp from the source. So the
destination can take another timestamp at receive time. The sending back
of the reply to the timestamp request is not critical at all. The receiver
will just register the time differential established by the sender.