On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:57:47PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > Now, if there is no MAC from the command line, one is generated. We > use the microseconds from gettimeofday (20 bits), plus the low 12 > bits of the pid to seed the random number generator. random() is > called twice, with 16 bits of each result used. I didn't want to > have to try to fill in 32 bits optimally given an arbitrary > RAND_MAX, so I just assume that it is greater than 65536 and use 16 > bits of each random() return.
Why not use random_ether_addr() like dummy, tun, ifb and others? Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
