Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:49:00 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rndcontrol doesn't work on -STABLE? Message-ID: <20040222014736.I48887@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040222054729.GR62095@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <20040222010209.L48887@ganymede.hub.org> <20040222054729.GR62095@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > > Following instructions I found on the web to deal with rndc issues, I > > tried to sent entropy by doing the following: > > da4 at ahd1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > > neptune# rndcontrol -s 17 > > rndcontrol: setting irq 17 > > rndcontrol: rndcontrol: Invalid argument > > I found this comment in src/sys/i386/i386/mem.c: > > /* > * XXX the data is 16-bit due to a historical botch, so we use > * magic 16's instead of ICU_LEN and can't support 24 interrupts > * under SMP. > > This is right before the code that checks the irq: > > if (intr < 0 || intr >= 16) > return (EINVAL); > > I doubt this will be changed as it is gone in 5.X (thanks to the new > entropy gathering in -CURRENT). Great ... another reason to move up ... but, short term, is there any other way of doing this? user land daemon or something? I know when I used to deal with Solaris, there were a few that could be used for use with sshd, since Solaris wasn't shipping with a /dev/random ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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