wired_netif_init() function
In this scenario of configuring WiFi, we setup Ethernet to create a network and run DHCP server, so it could assign an IP address to the PC ESP32 PC | eth | [ eth-NIC ] | | | (wifi-provisioning) | From the PC's NIC perspective the board acts as a separate network with it's own IP and MAC address (this network's MAC address is the native ESP32's Ethernet interface MAC)