Re: [hackers] [slstatus][PATCH] Add FreeBSD support for netspeeds, entropy and ip components

From: Michael Buch <michaelbuch12_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 18:26:44 +0000

Hey,
Thanks for reviewing!

As far as I know, similar to OpenBSD, in FreeBSD entropy is not a stat
that's useful (or readily available) since both use prng schemes that
deal with low available entropy. [1] There is a way to inspect whether
the random device is properly seeded or will block. But that wouldn't
be the same as what slstatus does for Linux.

1: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173086.html

Thanks,
Michael


Am Di., 5. Feb. 2019 um 08:36 Uhr schrieb Aaron Marcher <me_AT_drkhsh.at>:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> the entropy function on OpenBSD is kind of a easter egg. Could you look
> into "really" porting it to FreeBSD?
> Thank you very much for your motivation of porting slstatus to FreeBSD.
> I merged the other patches already.
>
> Cheers!
> Aaron
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