RE: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc
On 01-Mar-01 Doug Barton wrote: I was unable to test the ppp bits, but I've every reason to believe that this will work. Comments and suggestions are welcome. The goal is to turn on the appropriate harvesters for ethernet, and/or ppp/slip/tun based on the presence of a configured device of that nature. So, the ethernet bits check to see if there is an ethernet card configured, and turns on that harvester if so. The same should be true for the ppp harvester, based on the suggestions I received for detecting whether a tun device is or will be in use. Erm, it doesn't hurt to turn the sysctl on if no device is present, so why not just turn it on w/o bothering to check? If there's no ether device then having the sysctl on or off doesn't change anything except that if one plugs in an ether device later or kldloads a driver later entropy won't be collected, where as if you just turn the sysctl on if network entropy is enabled regardless of what devices are configured it will all just work and DTRT. -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Doug Barton wrote: Appropriate rc.conf(5) entries will be coming in a seperate commit. I am working on a general cleanup/update of that file, but I plan to wait till the reality in rc.conf is closer to what we want it to be. This is only tangentially related but while you're talking about a cleanup of the rc.conf(5) file, did anyone ever work up a patchset for the NetBSD rc system that was discussed several months ago? -- Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc
Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goal is to turn on the appropriate harvesters for ethernet, and/or ppp/slip/tun based on the presence of a configured device of that nature. So, the ethernet bits check to see if there is an ethernet card configured, and turns on that harvester if so. What about ethernet devices that aren't present at boot time but which turn up later? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] FINISTERRE: EAST OR SOUTHEAST 4 OR 5 INCREASING 6 OR 7, BUT CYCLONIC BECOMING SOUTHWESTERLY IN FAR SOUTH. SHOWERS THEN RAIN. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc
On Thu 2001-03-01 (15:57), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: Appropriate rc.conf(5) entries will be coming in a seperate commit. I am working on a general cleanup/update of that file, but I plan to wait till the reality in rc.conf is closer to what we want it to be. This is only tangentially related but while you're talking about a cleanup of the rc.conf(5) file, did anyone ever work up a patchset for the NetBSD rc system that was discussed several months ago? I have a bastardisation on my laptop at home; if I can find the time over the weekend, I'll see about getting it off there[1] and sending it to -hackers. [1] It has no network card anymore, and a dodgy floppy drive. Joy. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
