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From: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: randomness - compaq smart array driver
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202111754560.5685-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>; from tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:58:37PM +0100
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Yes, I've been using the netdev patches for months.  Aside from the
unrelated entropy exhaustion bug, his patches are stable (and optional)
and help on diskless or low-I/O machines.  2.4 or 2.5 anyone? :)
-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
| On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Proescholdt, timo wrote:
| 
| > I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness.
| > I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output.
| [...]
| > I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this
| > topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere .
| > Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
| 
| Robert Love did a patch to let network devices contribute to the random
| pool. Look at
|   ftp://www.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/
| or
|   http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
| 
| Tim
| 
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