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

[Kevin Otte]

Brian Henning wrote:
> I was about to reply along this line earlier today, before I googled
> "urandom"...  Assuming it works similarly on all *nix systems (which, I
> realize, could be a big assumption), both urandom and random pull from the
> entropy pool; the only difference being that random blocks when it runs out,
> whereas urandom forges ahead with a pseudo-random generator.  At least,
> that's how I interpreted what I read.

For the truly paranoid, a brief example on how to reseed the entropy
pool with truly random data:

http://trilug.pastebin.ca/37948

-- Kevin