Hi, On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 20:53, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/17/21 3:12 PM, Erik Flodin wrote: > > The documentation for SIOCGIFFLAGS/SIOCSIFFLAGS in netdevice.7 lists > > IFF_LOWER_UP, IFF_DORMANT and IFF_ECHO, but those can't be set in > > ifr_flags as it is only a short and the flags start at 1<<16. > > > > See also https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=746e6ad23cd6fec2edce056e014a0eabeffa838c > > > > I don't know what's the history of that. Judging from commit message in the commit linked above it was added by mistake. As noted the flags are accessible via netlink, just not via SIOCGIFFLAGS. // Erik
