[JDEV] Gabber for Solaris

Phillip Oleson poleson at verio.net
Wed Feb 27 10:05:40 CST 2002


just a side note that may interest you in regards to /dev/random on solaris.
check out http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/  This kernel module works quite
well... at least for me.

	Phil.

Peter Fales wrote:
> I was able to compile 0.8.7 for solaris 2.5.1 with very minimal changes.
> In src/TCPTransmitter.cc I added these lines:
> 
> 	#define socklen_t int
> 	#define INET_ADDRSTRLEN 16
> 
> as they don't seem to be supplied in any of the solaris headers.  I believe
> that's all that is needed to compile if you don't need SSL support.  To get
> SSL working (since solaris doesn't have /dev/random), I had to add some
> code to invoke prngd (part of openssh) to seed the random number
> generator.
> 
> 


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