tree 37010a908f7cd709112e4995e83ffddbcd479590
parent 4282c6c52b4f1f4b5e1ef5ef377c342ca87e0b73
author Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 1193334389 +0200
committer Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> 1193364548 -0700

iproute 2.6.23 incompatibility

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> People are reporting that
>> ip link set multicast on dev eth0 (Invalid argument)
>> no longer works when using iproute 2.6.23 on kernel 2.6.21.
>>
>> On my testing machine it also fails:
>> # ./ip link set eth0 multicast on
>> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

It seems it fails to properly detect that your kernel is missing
RTM_NEWLINK support. Apparently the reason is that the kernels
I tested with return a different error in this situation.


Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>