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Re: pfinet, random (was: L1 mini iso)



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. 


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