On Tue, Jun 08, 2004, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
JF> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:31:59 -0400 JF> From: Jason Frisvold
JF> I don't see why they can't roll it into every ios that runs JF> on a router capable of ssh. Ssh and sshd on my linux system JF> barely break 500k compiled... And there's a TON of JF> functionality in there that isn't required on a router. It JF> would seem that you could get ssh put into these code trains JF> in under 500k ...
Dynamic linking might be cheating. Static linking might be pessimistic. Probably best to compare BSD "crunchgen" images with and without ssh/sshd. (2MB total for statically-linked ssh and sshd as I compile it.)
A friend of mine here at uni wrote a much, much smaller sshd replacement he calls "dropbear". Its much, much smaller than sshd. Much smaller. http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html I think its very very cute. Perhaps some vendors with small memory footprints would consider implementing this kind of tiny sshd? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.