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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-06-11 10:35:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-06-11 10:52:11 -0700 |
| commit | 6e8e271c0dc5e931d64436dea6643eb25527b1d0 (patch) | |
| tree | be04028c863974ac005fcc1260079cfdb25881f7 | |
| parent | 02029a699a1642043ca50d90cf4a39949708426e (diff) | |
Mention that /dev/urandom is needed.
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.Linux | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | PORTING | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index c3cf2f84..014e3ac0 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ following software: if it is installed in a different location, then some Open vSwitch log messages will not be as detailed. +You should ensure that /dev/urandom exists. + To run the ovsdmonitor tool, the machine must also have the following software: @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ during a port: vSwitch datapath module for the Linux kernel. They may serve as a model for minimal netdev implementations. +Miscellaneous Notes +------------------- + +lib/uuid.c, used in OVSDB, assumes that it can obtain a high-quality +random number seed at startup by reading from /dev/urandom. You may +need to modify it if this is not true on your platform. + Questions --------- |