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Date:      Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:30:07 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, audit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mrouted cleanup
Message-ID:  <20001008143007.A35605@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200010081334.e98DYD511857@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:34:13AM -0400
References:  <kris@citusc.usc.edu> <200010081334.e98DYD511857@green.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> wrote:
> > @@ -2746,7 +2746,7 @@
> >  #ifdef SYSV    
> >      srand48(seed);
> >  #else
> > -    srandom(seed);
> > +    srandomdev();
> >  #endif
> >  
> >      /*
> > 
> 
> Do you want to just replace the last random() with arc4random() and do away 
> with the srandom()/srandomdev()?  Other than that, I don't see anything 
> wrong with the cleanup of mrouted.

I didn't see the need since it's just for introducing timing jitter
into the packets to de-synchronize from other routers.

Kris


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