[Openswan Users] Openswan on FC5 64bit

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Bill Marcus wrote:

> Actually I'm not using xen or any kind of virtual machine product at all.

run hexdump -C /dev/random until it depletes (if you see anything at all)
then:
 yum install rngd
 modprobe amd-rng
 rngd -r /dev/hwrng -o /dev/random

then try hexdump -C /dev/random again.

I think the new fedora kernels might just not be modprobing the proper
hardware random modules that seem to have been factored off, eg there
exists now:

/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/geode-rng.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/amd-rng.ko

instead of the old hw_random.ko

Paul
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