[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.

Ah.  It uses random().  RC5 is slower, but I include seeding.

GAH, I'm so @#)(*@# blind.

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Nicholas C. Weaver                               nweaver at icsi.berkeley.edu
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