Hi Linux community,
I have a question concerning /dev/random on proliant servers with
smart array controllers.
A month ago i tried to install freeswan on a proliant dl360 box,
running redhat 6.2 on a smart array controller.
There are no disks hanging at the scsi controller only the
two disks at the smart array controller channel. Kernel is 2.4.14 .
I noticed that the installation fails due to missing randomness.
I can confirm that as cat /dev/random does not provide any output.
Looking and asking arround i found out that the smart array
controller driver has a bug (?) so that it does not provide
any information to the kernel random functions.
Because i am working on the machine over a ssh connection
there is no mouse / keyboard input, so randomness
depends on disk aktivity only. As the only disks on the
system are connected to the smart array controller
no random data can be created.
I heard that there is a patch for 2.2.x kernels, wich deals with this
topic , but i cannot find this patch anywere .
Is there a similar patch for 2.4.x kernels?
Will this problem be solved in the next future?
Can anybody tell me if this problem is known, are there
any workarrounds / solutions ?
many thanks
Timo Proescholdt
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