"Malte S. Stretz" <m...@apache.org> writes: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 18:20:06 Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> "Malte S. Stretz" <m...@apache.org> writes: >>> On Thursday 18 June 2009 16:22:54 Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: >>>>> today I've written a proof-of-concept for >>>>> getting rid of oldstyle networking aka 'ifconfig'. >>>> >>>> You do realize that this "oldstyle" networking stuff uses busybox >>>> internals while switching to "ip" will introduce yet another few >>>> kilobytes of bloat? >>> >>> busybox also has a builtin ip; I don't know if it has all the features >>> needed but if it has, the images could get even smaller without the >>> external ip and without the builtin ifconfig. >> >> The ip applet is not enabled currently, and I don't know if it's >> smaller than the ifconfig applet. > > I know that its not enabled per default and don't know either if it is > smaller > (but I'm currently compiling to see what the difference is). But even if it > is the same size as ifconfig, the per default installed ip package (the > binary > has about 200k) would become obsolete. If busybox can do all the stuff it > does that means. > > So maybe $((script + (busybox + ip_applet - ifconfig_applet))) < $((ip + > (busybox - ip_applet + ifconfig_applet))... we'll see.
Along the same lines, do you think the external bridge-tools is worth staying installed by default, given that the busybox brctl applet is already included? I didn't notice any missing functionality until now. If not error messages... -- Cheers, Feri. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
