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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:33:12 +0100
From:      Danijel Tasov <dt@vosat.de>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gpg -random bytes
Message-ID:  <20021108163312.GA58575@knast.server-king.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021107205530.GC44158@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <OE24K5zQEevxcVeuuLt00000b5e@hotmail.com> <20021107205530.GC44158@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Make sure you have told FreeBSD to collect randomness info from its
> peripherals.  Put this in /etc/rc.conf:
>=20
> rand_irqs=3D"5 10 13"
>=20
> Replace the numbers with the IRQs of your disk and network devices (you
> can get these from dmesg), and reboot.

Instead of rebooting your machine, you can also type

   for i in 5 10 13; do rndcontrol -s $i; done

as root.

bye,
Danijel Tasov

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