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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: iproute uses too small of a receive buffer
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:15:03 -0800
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> 
> How about this? It uses 1MB as receive buf limit by default (without
> increasing /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max it will be limited by less
> however) and allows to specify the size manually using "-rcvbuf X"
> (-r is already used, so you need to specify at least -rc).
> 
> Additionally rtnl_listen() continues on ENOBUFS after printing the
> error message.

Applied, seems like the best workaround