doc: note in docs about missing interfaces

Update the documentation for `os.networkInterfaces` to note that any interface that has not been assigned an address will not be displayed in the results Fixes: #498 PR-URL: #543 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
nodejs · Jan 23, 2015 · 8b1db9c · 8b1db9c
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@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ Get a list of network interfaces:
            mac: '01:02:03:0a:0b:0c',
            internal: false } ] }
 
+Note that due to the underlying implementation this will only return network
+interfaces that have been assigned an address.
+
 ## os.EOL
 
 A constant defining the appropriate End-of-line marker for the operating system.