[TriLUG] need help, netcat as a traffic generator?

[Michael Tharp]

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Just to throw in another data point, you could also use /dev/zero, which
> will give you an endless stream of zeros.  If you don't care about what
> the data is (ie. don't need it to be at least moderately random), using
> /dev/zero won't needlessly deplete your systems source of random).
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>   
Does urandom even use entropy? I thought it was an independent 
pseudo-random generator, unlike /dev/random which will block until it 
gets enough entropy.