Re: /dev/random

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:13:51 CDT, Sarat Babu Kamisetty wrote: 
>Hi,
>
>I am a Research Assistant at Purdue University. Currently, I am trying to
>conduct some experiments on Security in Mobile Communications. However, I
>am new to ns. I read most of the related documentation to get started
>with. 
>
>I am trying to use cmu-scenario-generator to generate Node
>Movemenets etc. But it always says that /dev/random device is not there on
>the System. Mine is a Solaris machine and there is no /dev/random (My
>linux machine and FreeBSD machine have /dev/random.). Is there any
>workaround other than using /dev/random (I cannot create such a device
>node on the machine as I am not the root.) Any suggestions would be of
>great help. Also, I downloaded a current release of ns-2lb5 that is on the
>URL: http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-build.html. but it does not
>have any Makefile. Any ideas ???

setdest was rewritten to be portable since the last release.
(There was some discussion about this on the mailing list.)
You can get it from the current snapshot.

   -John Heidemann