David Young wrote:

> Do you have any ideas what can be done to these huge programs in the
> base system to make them small yet reasonably effective on an IPv4/IPv6
> router/bridge?
> 
>         * wpa_supplicant
>         * hostapd
>         * dig / host

These two grew massively with bind9 IIRC.

>         * dhclient
>         * dhcpd
>         * netstat

netstat has a fair bit of functionality - maybe add some conditional
support for some of its features?

>         * pfctl

Cheers,
Simon.