On Wed, 21 May 1997 21:25:23 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

 > Isn't this bad behaviour of "ifconfig" which should be changed?
 > If a user requests to change a flag, just a flag should be affected.

...correct, but if the interface's address has not yet been set, it will
default to 0.0.0.0.

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