[Click] Little element, random dropper...

[Nicholas Weaver]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:25:35PM -0500, rchertov at purdue.edu composed:
> Quoting Nicholas Weaver <nweaver at icsi.berkeley.edu>:
> 
> > 
> >         For testing, I hacked up a simple little packet-dropper
> > (sysadmin is having some problems, and needs a debugging tool to
> > increase loss in a link).  It uses a 32 bit pRNG (RC5/3 round/32 bit)
> > to decide whether to randomly drop a packet.
> 
> I believe RandomSample element does something similar, although I haven't
> checked what RNG it uses.

D'oh!  Why didn't I see it earlier?  G!@#()!@*#)!@#


> Roman
> 
> > 
> >         Since it might be useful for others as well, I'm sending it to
> > the list.
> > 
> > The files:
> > rand_drop.{cc,hh} the element itself
> > rc5.{cc,hh} RC5 as a support file.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nicholas C. Weaver                               nweaver at icsi.berkeley.edu
> >      This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security.
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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Nicholas C. Weaver                               nweaver at icsi.berkeley.edu
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