The following reply was made to PR bin/33923; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33923: slattach(8) can't attach sl(4) interface
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:52:42 +0200

 On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:35:03AM +0000, Quentin Garnier wrote:
 >   Having the interface automatically created is
 >  just a matter of having slopen() do it, just like pppopen() calls
 >  pppalloc().
 
 But do people realy use slip that way? Unlike ppp, a sl* without prior
 ifconfig'uration does not make much sense (but on the other hand the kernel
 will just drop the packets received untill the user configures the interface
 up, so this does no real harm)
 
 Martin