Just want to check I&#39;m not missing something.<br><br>watch --interval 0.5 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail shows numbers between 120 and 180.<br><br>So I:<br>sudo aptitude install ekeyd-egd-linux<br>sudo iptables --append OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 8888 -d 212.13.194.102 -j ACCEPT<br>
sudo ekeyd-egd-linux -H 212.13.194.102 -p 8888 -b 2 -r 10 -D /root/entropy<br><br>netstat shows the expected connection as established, yet watch --interval 0.5 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail behaves in the same way.<br>
<br>I&#39;m convinced I&#39;m missing a step but can&#39;t see it, can any one else?<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 June 2010 08:26, Joseph Heenan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:joseph@heenan.me.uk">joseph@heenan.me.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Andy Bennett wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If you&#39;re on IRC, or follow me/bitfolk on twitter or on Facebook<br>
you&#39;re probably bored to tears hearing about this, but just in case<br>
there&#39;s some of you who aren&#39;t..<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve been investigating the issue of lack of entropy in virtual<br>
machines recently, and have gone into it in some detail in the<br>
following two blog postings:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://strugglers.net/%7Eandy/blog/2010/06/06/adventures-in-entropy-part-1/" target="_blank">http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/06/06/adventures-in-entropy-part-1/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Thanks for this Andy!<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve been running<br>
watch -n 0.25 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail<br>
<br>
...as recommended buy Hugo in the comments and my VPS fills up with entropy very quickly.<br>
</blockquote>
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Unless I&#39;m mistaken or there&#39;s some weird coincidence, running the above command on my VPS actually appears to generate extra entropy.<br>
<br>
<br>
Here&#39;s a graph of my VM&#39;s entropy:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://button.heenan.me.uk/%7Ejoseph/entropy-day.png" target="_blank">http://button.heenan.me.uk/~joseph/entropy-day.png</a><br>
<br>
I&#39;m guessing I&#39;m one of the ones who could well benefit from hooking upto the new entropy key. (It&#39;s a standard debian stable system, 2.6.26-2-xen-686 kernel.)<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
Joseph</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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