On 2/28/06, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:29:30 -0500
> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh yeah, another aspect:  cards with hardware interrupt mitigation
> > should NOT use SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM, for obvious reasons...  Anything that
> > has the potential to have non-random timings should be avoided.
>
> Then the skge, sky2, e1000, and tg3 should NOT be sampling.

I kind of agree, however, what do you use to get randomness on a
headless box without network traffic?

Jesse
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