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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2010-06-11 10:35:52 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2010-06-11 10:52:11 -0700
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Mention that /dev/urandom is needed.
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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
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