Hello, Did you resolve the issue with error message: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument I am getting the same message and I installed iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss001007. I grabbed the tar ball and did a make then copied all the new binaries in iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss001007/ip/* to /sbin and iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss001007/etc/iproute/* to /etc. Thanks, Allan #Hi, # #After installing iproute2-2.2.4-now-ss990417-2.i386.rpm I tried to use it, #and I got some errors. # #If I use ip route list I get # x.y.8.114 dev eth1 scope link # x.y.7.38 dev eth0 scope link # x.y.8.112/28 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src x.y.8.114 # x.y.7.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src x.y.7.38 # 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link # default via x.y.7.1 dev eth0 # #Whenever I try to use ip rule # [root@gw1 2.2.16-3smp] ip rule add from x.y.8.114 table 200 # #I also tried using a number for the table, as well as "new" but I keep #getting the same error. # #I get the following error message. # [root@gw1 2.2.16-3smp] RTNETLINK error: Invalid argument -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Allan McIntosh, Software Technologist Atreus Systems Corp, http://www.atreuscorp.com Phone: (613) 233-1741 ext 217 1800 764-5514 Fax: (613) 233-8204 ------------------------------------------------------------------ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org