On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:12:44PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I also keep hearing complaints about not having ping in the installer
> for checking network connectivity when things aren't working. :)
> But that would add a whole bunch of bytes to the installer size.
Yeah, count me in. And no, wget is not a sane replacement to check if
there's connectivity. On the other hand we added a bloated wpa
supplicant with crypto libs without any effort to get it trimmed (yet),
so those few bytes for ping shouldn't really matter IMO.[1]
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
[1] And yeah, I'm aware that it all adds up. Still, knowing that my
gateway is actually reachable and it's just HTTP that's broken,
is a massive help in a bunch of cases.
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