Subject: Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

From: Thomas Graf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:34:47 +0200

* Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> 2006-07-03 11:38
> That wasn't entirely true either, its not inet_check_attr but
> rtnetlink_rcv_message that aborts, and it does this on all
> kernels. Somehow I thought unknown attributes were usually
> ignored ..

This only applies to the first level of rtnetlink attributes,
when using rtattr_parse() unknown attributes are ignored.

Once this ugly rta_buf has disappeared it will become more
consistent.

Patches look good to me except that new iproute binaries
won't work with older kernels anymore?