Hi Walter, On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Walter Huf wrote: > In the course of developing netboot menus, and rebooting my virtual machine > often, I am running into a problem where Grub is reusing the same TCP > client ports across reboots, and my server (because of TCP TIME_WAIT) > objects to this. > > I have a small change to set the initial client port based on > grub_rtc_get_time_ms(), but I'm not sure if that functionality is available > on all supported platforms. I'd like to provide a general contribution that > works on all platforms. > > Is there a general way to get a pseudo-random integer that is different on > each boot?
I think that you should take a look, at least, at random module, grub-core/lib/random.c, etc. Have a nice weekend, Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
