Checked the entropy in an ARV4518pw (Lantiq Danube) running Attitude Adjustment and the available entropy was, more or less, between 300-400. Found this link (http://vafer.org/blog/20071219173915/), so plugged a pendrive and thanks to the dwg-otg generated interrupts the entropy_avail increased a lot.
Pendrive plugged: root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 3971/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 3970/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 3970/4096 Unplugging the pendrive: root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 189/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 130/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 133/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 137/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 143/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 147/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 150/4096 root@OpenWrt:~# echo " Entropy:" $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail)/$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize) Entropy: 155/4096 Interrupt sources: root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 2: 0 MIPS cascade 3: 0 MIPS cascade 4: 0 MIPS cascade 5: 0 MIPS cascade 6: 0 MIPS cascade 7: 19860002 MIPS timer 30: 9485340 icu ath 62: 1265320007 icu dwc_otg, dwc_otg_hcd:usb1 73: 614766 icu eth_tx 78: 989711 icu eth_rx 112: 133 icu asc_tx 113: 0 icu asc_rx 114: 0 icu asc_err 126: 0 icu gptu 127: 0 icu gptu 128: 0 icu gptu 129: 0 icu gptu 130: 0 icu gptu 131: 0 icu gptu ERR: 0 For some purposes maybe this is a serious problem. Hope this information could be helpful. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel