This flag is only for the netlink protocol (multi-part messages), no reason to reject messages without it.
Note that this flag was removed by the following kernel patches (v3.14) 65886f439ab0 ipmr: fix mfc notification flags f518338b1603 ip6mr: fix mfc notification flags Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> --- ip/ipmroute.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ip/ipmroute.c b/ip/ipmroute.c index 13ac892512d0..125a13f8c582 100644 --- a/ip/ipmroute.c +++ b/ip/ipmroute.c @@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ int print_mroute(const struct sockaddr_nl *who, struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg) int family; if ((n->nlmsg_type != RTM_NEWROUTE && - n->nlmsg_type != RTM_DELROUTE) || - !(n->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_MULTI)) { + n->nlmsg_type != RTM_DELROUTE)) { fprintf(stderr, "Not a multicast route: %08x %08x %08x\n", n->nlmsg_len, n->nlmsg_type, n->nlmsg_flags); return 0; -- 2.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html