Getting network traffic statistics

[cableguy414]

I'll start with this is a school project. That said, I need to write a program that can retrieve "randomness from the Internet". I need to pull a random number from a physical source to be used as a seed for a random number generator.

One possible source that was suggested is inter-packet gap.

My problem is that I have no idea where to even start.

Any tips would be appreciated.

UPDATE** This will need to be compiled and run on Linux.

Thanks.

Jason