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From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: want to randomly drop packets based on percent
To: George Nychis <gnychis@cmu.edu>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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George Nychis <gnychis@cmu.edu> wrote:

> But then I ran into the problem of properly seeding the random number
> generator... srand(time(0)) is one way... however time() returns
> seconds, therefore i would drop multiple packets in a single second if I
> used this method which is very undesirable.  What is the proper way to
> generate a random number here?

You seed the random generator once, not each time you use it.

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