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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