From 9f8d5e7e60735540ef6c19a0236605abf4caeff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hubert Krauze <hubert.krauze@ovh.pl>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 12:47:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add link.Attrs().Flags during creating link

---
 link_linux.go | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/link_linux.go b/link_linux.go
index 0826285..738131b 100644
--- a/link_linux.go
+++ b/link_linux.go
@@ -328,6 +328,27 @@ func LinkAdd(link Link) error {
 	req := nl.NewNetlinkRequest(syscall.RTM_NEWLINK, syscall.NLM_F_CREATE|syscall.NLM_F_EXCL|syscall.NLM_F_ACK)
 
 	msg := nl.NewIfInfomsg(syscall.AF_UNSPEC)
+	// TODO: make it shorter
+	if base.Flags&net.FlagUp != 0 {
+		msg.Change = syscall.IFF_UP
+		msg.Flags = syscall.IFF_UP
+	}
+	if base.Flags&net.FlagBroadcast != 0 {
+		msg.Change |= syscall.IFF_BROADCAST
+		msg.Flags |= syscall.IFF_BROADCAST
+	}
+	if base.Flags&net.FlagLoopback != 0 {
+		msg.Change |= syscall.IFF_LOOPBACK
+		msg.Flags |= syscall.IFF_LOOPBACK
+	}
+	if base.Flags&net.FlagPointToPoint != 0 {
+		msg.Change |= syscall.IFF_POINTOPOINT
+		msg.Flags |= syscall.IFF_POINTOPOINT
+	}
+	if base.Flags&net.FlagMulticast != 0 {
+		msg.Change |= syscall.IFF_MULTICAST
+		msg.Flags |= syscall.IFF_MULTICAST
+	}
 	req.AddData(msg)
 
 	if base.ParentIndex != 0 {