Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:29:35 -0400 From: "Scott Ullrich" <sullrich@gmail.com> To: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> Cc: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx_lists@vineyard.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hifn errors on console Message-ID: <d5992baf0604030929i285f8584nc384a90ec223bb78@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44314957.4020800@errno.com> References: <44313943.1060300@vineyard.net> <44314957.4020800@errno.com>
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On 4/3/06, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote: > Eric W. Bates wrote: > > I'm running pfsense (an embedded FreeBSD 6.1) on a wrap2C. I recently > > added a Soekris vpn1411 and am now getting infrequent errors: > > > > hifn0: rndtest: ones interval 4 failed (382, 251-373) > > hifn0: rndtest: ones interval 1 failed (2663, 2343-2657) > > hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 5 failed (206, 111-201) > > hifn0: rndtest: ones interval 2 failed (1385, 1135-1365) > > hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 3 failed (718, 542-708) > > hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 4 failed (243, 251-373) > > hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 3 failed (717, 542-708) > > > > IPSec works fine. However, I do not know how to tell whether the hifn > > is being used. > > > > I had no luck with Google. Can anyone enlighten me? > > man rndtest(4). pfSense has configured the FIPS rng testing module to > monitor the entropy sent by the h/w to the system prng. Looks like > > sysctl kern.rdntest.verbose=3D0 > > will turn off console msgs. Thanks, Sam! I'll add this to our sysctl.conf. Scott
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