iproute uses too small of a receive buffer

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

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I have a very busy system with a bunch of xorp router processes (mis)configured.

This thing is rapidly making route changes for whatever reason.

The 'ip monitor route' command was failing:

[root@i7-dqc-1 ]# ip monitor route
netlink receive error No buffer space available (105)
Dump terminated


It is only using a 32k rcv buffer, and it seems the OS was
overdriving it.

Please consider making the rcv buffer larger, perhaps something
like this (inline is white-space damaged...attachment should apply
if deemed useful.):

Signed-off-by:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
index b68e2fd..95a7d1d 100644
--- a/lib/libnetlink.c
+++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int rtnl_open_byproto(struct rtnl_handle *rth, unsigned subscriptions,
  {
         socklen_t addr_len;
         int sndbuf = 32768;
-       int rcvbuf = 32768;
+       int rcvbuf = 3276800;

         memset(rth, 0, sizeof(*rth));


Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
index b68e2fd..95a7d1d 100644
--- a/lib/libnetlink.c
+++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int rtnl_open_byproto(struct rtnl_handle *rth, unsigned subscriptions,
 {
 	socklen_t addr_len;
 	int sndbuf = 32768;
-	int rcvbuf = 32768;
+	int rcvbuf = 3276800;
 
 	memset(rth, 0, sizeof(*rth));