No, its a 'bug' in ifconfig, it is requesting all kinds of Adress families
(which is not the right thing to do .). This will be fixed in the next
net-tools Release.
Greetings
Bernd
PS: http://www.inka.de/sites/lina/linux/net-tools/index_en.html
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