Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FreeBSD, at the least, allows interfaces to be "up" without assigned > addresses in any family. The state of being up is logically > independent > from having an address -- it merely implies that the device is > available > to send packets. And the same will be true (or even is already) for our stack. And BONE, too, for that matter. Bye, Axel.