> > If there are no addresses, then there is no point in "plumbing" the > > associated interface under the hood. The administrator's intent is > > implicit in the addresses that are configured over the interface. > > > > what if I want to plumb the interface just to snoop the traffic > on it? (I've done this in the past).
FWIW, there used to be a bug in snoop where it would do a SIOCGLIFCONF if it was invoked without an explicit datalink name. I changed this several builds back to do a dlpi_walk() instead. Perhaps that's what you're recalling. -- meem
