> > Can you generate/allocate the interface on demand, i.e. if
> > someone tries to ifconfig gif17, just create it?
>No, because that is not necessarily the correct thing to do.
>I.e. what if I accidentally fat-finger "gif9" when I meant "gif0"?

	another question: how can we know that "gif" is available in the
	kernel as cloning pseudo-device?  it does not show up on dmesg,
	nor netstat -in, nor ifconfig -a. (showing it in boot message is the
	easiest thing to do, of course)

itojun