IT security people sleep well

Tue Jun 8 03:06:04 UTC 2004

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.)

JF> Personally, I like having a little wiggle room in the
JF> flash...  Putting an image on there that occupies the entire
JF> flash is a bad thing...

You haven't lived life to its fullest until you need to load a
boot image remotely via YModem. ;)

Eddy
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