should SLIP support be removed?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri May 19 21:16:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 19 May 2006, Andy Green wrote:

> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:22 am, Andy Green wrote:
> > > Looks like you might as well optimize HWSLIP stuff out.
> > >
> > > SLIP works fine without it with net-tools slattach and busybox ifconfig.
> >
> > How big is slattach?
>
> # ll `which slattach`
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14720 May  2 08:53 /usr/bin/slattach
>
> This is ARM.

on x86 as part of fedora core 5:

$ ls -l /sbin/slattach
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33620 Feb 12 02:36 /sbin/slattach

that's stripped.

rday



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