Busybox -- Why is this running on my RT-AC87U?

[marjamar]

I am perplex with a log file I read this morning on my router. Having problems connecting to a device on my LAN, I was looking through the logs to see activity to it's IP and came across a Busybox set of entries which had date fields of Dec 31. Not sure why the date field wasn't the actual NTP the router was previously using? At the end of this Busybox log sequence, it then did a NTP update to the correct date/time.

 

[tim]

http://www.busybox.net/about.html

 

[Zirescu]

There is no battery backup for the clock on the router so after each reboot you'll lose the time which resets to Dec 31 until NTP runs.

 

[RMerlin]

Busybox is a series of small software components used by a typical Linux-based device. Instead of including full-featured versions of all those tools (which would take many megabytes of space), Busybox provides basic versions, in a very small footprint targeting embedded devices such as routers, media players, smartphones, etc...