From 31288324bd348c7775fd7c28946093c7d57144a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbjohnso <jbjohnso@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:48:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] -Reseed random generator to reduce chances of collision
 (though uniqueness still should be guaranteed elsewhere)

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@4284 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
---
 perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
index b935e4e1d..c29c6e402 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/VMCommon.pm
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ sub getMacAddresses {
 sub genMac { #Generates a mac address for a node, does NOT assure uniqueness, calling code needs to do that
     my $node=shift;
     my $prefix = shift;
+    srand(); #Re-seed the rng.  I haven't been able to reproduce it, but duplicate macs were somehow making it
     if ($prefix) { #Specific prefix requested, honor it
         my $tail = int(rand(0xffffff)); #With only 24 bits of space, use random bits;
         $tail = sprintf("%06x",$tail);