Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: want to randomly drop packets based on percent | Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:45:29 +0200 |
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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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