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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by boring_twenties on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:48PM (#21132779)
Broadcast packets are received in non-promiscuous mode, obviously. Otherwise none of this would work without it.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by icedchai on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:28PM (#21132966)
Yes, you are correct.. I was more commenting that the "stray" network packets could still be used for timing.
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