udhcp and busybox
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Mar 26 22:32:17 UTC 2006
On Sunday 26 March 2006 3:13 pm, Devin Bayer wrote:
> So it's a matter of usability. I shouldn't have to learn an API just
> to get an IP address. I believe it can work out of the box for most
> users. So it should. Hardcoding the actions in C is just a simpler
> way to achieve that. It doesn't require changes to the install and
> is less prone to breakage.
It's also smaller. Since you need ifconfig and route built in anyway in order
to bring the interface up, why not just _do_ it?
I'm working on it, but Garrett (the uclibc++ guy) is about to abduct me to go
poke at his project for a bit. :)
Rob
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