Re: supporting extend 'open live capture' parametes

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

BTW, my original tests of the monitor mode changes didn't work on  
FreeBSD or OpenBSD, because the adapter was added when I plugged it  
into the USB bus, but wasn't automatically brought up.  I had to do  
"ifconfig zyd0 up" to make it work.

If libpcap can determine that an adapter isn't up, should it attempt  
to bring it up with the appropriate ioctl?  Or should it fail and have  
the application tell the user, who would have to bring it up  
themselves?  Or should it just try to use the adapter anyway?
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