rndcontrol doesn't work on -STABLE?
Marc G. Fournier
scrappy at hub.org
Sat Feb 21 21:53:53 PST 2004
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 ...
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