[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 May 2006, at 21:25, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> > +       memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, info->mac, ETH_ALEN);
> > +       network_connect(netdev);
> > +       info->irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(
> > +               info->evtchn, netif_int, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
> > netdev->name,
> This doesn't look like a real random entropy source. packets
> arriving from another domain are easily timed.
Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment? Leaving the 
pool empty can cause processes to hang.
 -- Keir


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