Hi, I looked up the pakages installed on my machine by ipkg list_installed and I found out, that there are some* ppp realted packages. I know why all the other packages are installed, but I am not sure about those, if I remove them, will the router still work as before? I neither use modem nor I use any vpn (and ppp is not necessary to run openvpn, for example, right?)

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ppp - 2.4.3-6 - a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon (with MPPE/MPPC support)
ppp-mod-pppoe - 2.4.3-6 - a PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) plugin for PPP

No, ppp is just necessary for stuff that needs it. In case of a router not having a modem attached, that'd be pppoe or pptp client/server. So if you dont use those, remove them to save some tiny space.

No. All ppp packages can be removed. That save you a lot of space on the flash.

Do this via:

root@OpenWrt:/# ipkg -recursive remove *ppp*
Removing package ppp-mod-pppoe from root...
Removing package ppp from root...
Removing package kmod-ppp from root...
Removing package kmod-pppoe from root...
Done.
Collected errors:
Package seems to be ppp not installed (STATUS = NOT_INSTALLED).
Package seems to be ppp-mod-pppoe not installed (STATUS = NOT_INSTALLED).
root@OpenWrt:/#

Ignore the errors.

(Last edited by olli_04 on 28 Sep 2005, 21:37)

thanks, every 200KB counts:-). (percentually it would be about 2GB on my harddisk:-))