On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:50:58PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Philip Charles, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 23:52:32 +1300, a écrit : > > > > 1. Does entropy still have to be copied to /dev/urandom ? > > > > > > Or use the random-egd package. > > Has this been in productive use for some time, and is it considered (in > some bounds) stable? Or may it, for the time being, be rather > advisable to stick with simply copying a binary to /dev/random and > /dev/urandom?
OK I will still provide entropy. Is /dev/random needed? > > > > 2. Configuring the network > > > > ten days ago "settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i > > > > eth0 \ -a 192.168.1.10 -g 192.168.1.4 -m 255.255.255.0 -4" > > > > worked nicely, now it is broken. "pfinet --usage" says that it > > > > should be "-4 NAME" What is NAME? Or am I off track? > > > > I will also have to look at /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > I simply do not use the -4 option and it works. I guess NAME should > > > be /servers/socket/2 and if you wanted to enable ipv6 at the same > > > time, add -6 /servers/socket/26 > > > > I suspect that this is broken. A show stopper. > > Just strip away the -4 you had at the end. That's not needed (it's > even wrong), and without that one pfinet should work as it has done > for the last few years. These new options are only needed for IPv6 > support. It was not configuring yesterday with and without the -4. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [email protected] - personal. [email protected] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
