seeding dev/random in 5.5

[Michael Scheidell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. B. Riddick [mailto:arne_woerner at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:12 AM
> To: Michael Scheidell; freebsd-security at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5
> 
> I think that during the first reboot after a fresh install 
> the kern.random.sys sysctl settings are already orderly 
> before rc.d/sshd is called...
> 
> If yes, then sending some pings should do the trick... Or 
> not? I mean: NETWORKING should already be provided at that point...

I am not sure I understand what you are saying in the context of my
question.