Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:51:36 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/random Message-ID: <200211220251.gAM2paG74223@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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I am the one who asked the question about /dev/random earlier today. I don't know if answers are appropriate on this list, but here is what I found out: The /dev/random device was working but exceedingly slowly because I was using the wrong IRQ's. That was partly due to the fact that all of the FreeBSD systems I am trying to enable /dev/random on have been up from between 168 to 183 days and every single one had lost all the dmesg data from their buffers. I decided to see if there were any files on the system whose creation time coincided with the last time it was booted. That search lead me to /var/dmesg.boot. Alleluia! I used the IRQ for the SCSI disk controller, the CDROM IDE controller and the Ethernet adapters. I now seem to have a steady flow of entropy events. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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