Minimun runtime environment for socket communication

Hi All,
I try to build a diskless mini Linux system with socket communication.
Right now I can boot the diskless system based on PXE and BusyBox with
network support. SO I can ping other computers. But I can't run SSH or FTP.
I think I still miss the runtime environment for socket commnuication.
Can anybody give some advice on how to build a mini runtime environment
for socket communication?
Thanks a lot!



Bill

Hi.

BusyBox on my Debian did not have some libraries needed for networking.
so i just did ldd `which ftp`; ldd `which ssh` - you get the idea.

These are the libs in my BusyBox (you should not need all of them):

$ ls /lib
ld-linux.so.2 libe2p.so.2 libnsl.so.1 libparted-1.4.so.14
libreadline.so.4 libuuid.so.1
libc.so.6 libext2fs.so.2 libnss_dns.so.2 libpopt.so.0
libresolv.so.2 libwrap.so.0
libcom_err.so.2 libncurses.so.5 libnss_files.so.2 libpthread.so.0
librt.so.1

Also make sure you have /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/services.

Cheers.