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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:26:45 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Wayne <wayne@etaq.com>
Cc:        Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.barnesos.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't sshd into box
Message-ID:  <20030303102645.D49156@espresso.bsdmike.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030303000602.A26864@etaq.com>; from wayne@etaq.com on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:06:02AM -0600
References:  <20030303000602.A26864@etaq.com>

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Wayne <wayne@etaq.com> writes:
> Dear Jason,
> 
>    [Not too many people jumping onto this thread to help me.]
> 
>    The first two non-bold lines on rebooting, are:
> hw.bus.devctl_disable: 0 -> 1
> Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point.
> 
> So I try:
> root@etaq3:/home/wayne>sysctl hw.bus.devctl_disable: 1 -> 0
>    [but the result is:]
> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.bus.devctl_disable:'
> 
>     So what the heck is "Entropy harvesting" ?  Could this
> be blocking my incoming contact attempts?

I missed most of this thread, but to set the sysctl you want to:
`sysctl hw.bus.devctl_disable=0'.  See random(4) for details on
entropy harvesting.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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