>The startup code for ifconfig always tries to create a socket for each
>protocol family which it understands. A precompiled ifconfig binary
>generally supports TCP/IP, IPX, AppleTalk and AX.25, so it will
>attempt to create a socket for each of these protocol families.
Just in passing, this is no longer the case for the latest versions of
ifconfig. It now attempts to detect which protocols are actually present
before opening its sockets.
p.
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