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Description of problem:
When running `netstat -n -A inet`, the application aborts execution with error message

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
net-tools-2.0-0.15.20131004git.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Alwyas

Steps to Reproduce:
1. netstat -n -A inet

Actual results:
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
tcp        0      0 192.168.122.125:22      192.168.122.1:51954     ESTABLISHED
netstat: no support for `AF INET (sctp)' on this system.

Expected results:
echo $?
0

Additional info:
running `modprobe sctp` makes the error go away.

Thanks.
This was once reported and fixed as bug #229232, so it's a regression (I must have dropped the patch during 1.60 -> pre2.0 move).

Created attachment 861915 [details]
Patch

Here is the patch, took from 1.60 version and adjusted to fit RHEL7 2.0 version. It suppresses the error message.
I noticed this message shows up in Fedora version too.

Thinking about it, it seems that adding "If the sctp module is not added to the kernel..." into manpage is actually pointless, because with the patch it no longer prints that message. So adding comment into man page and fixing the source are both excluding each other.

cvs-commit http://bulk-mail.corp.redhat.com/archives/cvs-commits-list/2014-February/msg06464.html

Here I made a different (and probably better) solution of this problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063913#c7

cvs-commit http://bulk-mail.corp.redhat.com/archives/cvs-commits-list/2014-February/msg08263.html

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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