diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fbcbd61..6a71da3 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AC_INIT
 
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libnfnetlink, 0.0.30)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libnfnetlink, 0.0.33)
 
 AC_PROG_CC
 AC_EXEEXT
diff --git a/include/libnfnetlink/libnfnetlink.h b/include/libnfnetlink/libnfnetlink.h
index de77caa..37fa663 100644
--- a/include/libnfnetlink/libnfnetlink.h
+++ b/include/libnfnetlink/libnfnetlink.h
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ extern struct nfnl_subsys_handle *nfnl_subsys_open(struct nfnl_handle *,
 						   unsigned int);
 extern void nfnl_subsys_close(struct nfnl_subsys_handle *);
 
+/* set receive buffer size (for nfnl_catch) */
+extern void nfnl_set_rcv_buffer_size(struct nfnl_handle *h, unsigned int size);
+
 /* sending of data */
 extern int nfnl_send(struct nfnl_handle *, struct nlmsghdr *);
 extern int nfnl_sendmsg(const struct nfnl_handle *, const struct msghdr *msg,
@@ -170,7 +173,8 @@ extern int nfnl_parse_attr(struct nfattr **, int, struct nfattr *, int);
 extern void nfnl_build_nfa_iovec(struct iovec *iov, struct nfattr *nfa, 
 				 u_int16_t type, u_int32_t len,
 				 unsigned char *val);
-extern unsigned int nfnl_rcvbufsiz(struct nfnl_handle *h, unsigned int size);
+extern unsigned int nfnl_rcvbufsiz(const struct nfnl_handle *h, 
+				   unsigned int size);
 
 
 extern void nfnl_dump_packet(struct nlmsghdr *, int, char *);
diff --git a/src/libnfnetlink.c b/src/libnfnetlink.c
index 6cbc43e..6b91631 100644
--- a/src/libnfnetlink.c
+++ b/src/libnfnetlink.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct nfnl_handle {
 	u_int32_t		subscriptions;
 	u_int32_t		seq;
 	u_int32_t		dump;
+	u_int32_t		rcv_buffer_size;	/* for nfnl_catch */
 	struct nlmsghdr 	*last_nlhdr;
 	struct nfnl_subsys_handle subsys[NFNL_MAX_SUBSYS+1];
 };
@@ -184,6 +185,7 @@ struct nfnl_handle *nfnl_open(void)
 		goto err_close;
 	}
 	nfnlh->seq = time(NULL);
+	nfnlh->rcv_buffer_size = NFNL_BUFFSIZE;
 
 	/* don't set pid here, only first socket of process has real pid !!! 
 	 * binding to pid '0' will default */
@@ -211,6 +213,19 @@ err_free:
 }
 
 /**
+ * nfnl_set_rcv_buffer_size - set the size of the receive buffer
+ * @h: libnfnetlink handler
+ * @size: buffer size
+ *
+ * This function sets the size of the receive buffer size, i.e. the size
+ * of the buffer used by nfnl_recv. Default value is 4096 bytes.
+ */
+void nfnl_set_rcv_buffer_size(struct nfnl_handle *h, unsigned int size)
+{
+	h->rcv_buffer_size = size;
+}
+
+/**
  * nfnl_subsys_open - open a netlink subsystem
  * @nfnlh: libnfnetlink handle
  * @subsys_id: which nfnetlink subsystem we are interested in
@@ -943,7 +958,7 @@ void nfnl_build_nfa_iovec(struct iovec *iov, struct nfattr *nfa,
  *
  * This function returns the new size of the socket buffer.
  */
-unsigned int nfnl_rcvbufsiz(struct nfnl_handle *h, unsigned int size)
+unsigned int nfnl_rcvbufsiz(const struct nfnl_handle *h, unsigned int size)
 {
 	int status;
 	socklen_t socklen = sizeof(size);
@@ -1129,6 +1144,7 @@ int nfnl_check_attributes(const struct nfnl_handle *h,
 					 * the kernel which we don't understand
 					 * yet. We have to silently ignore this
 					 * for the sake of future compatibility */
+					attr = NFA_NEXT(attr, attrlen);
 					continue;
 				}
 				nfa[flavor - 1] = attr;
@@ -1190,6 +1206,7 @@ int nfnl_handle_packet(struct nfnl_handle *h, char *buf, int len)
 			return -1;
 
 		len -= rlen;
+		buf += rlen;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1453,52 +1470,11 @@ int nfnl_iterator_next(const struct nfnl_handle *h, struct nfnl_iterator *it)
 int nfnl_catch(struct nfnl_handle *h)
 {
 	int ret;
-	unsigned int size = NFNL_BUFFSIZE;
 
 	assert(h);
 
-	/*
-	 * Since nfqueue can send big packets, we don't know how big
-	 * must be the buffer that have to store the received data.
-	 */
-	{
-		unsigned char buf[size];
-		struct sockaddr_nl peer;
-		struct iovec iov = {
-			.iov_len = size,
-		};
-		struct msghdr msg = {
-			.msg_name = (void *) &peer,
-			.msg_namelen = sizeof(peer),
-			.msg_iov = &iov,
-			.msg_iovlen = 1,
-			.msg_control = NULL,
-			.msg_controllen = 0,
-			.msg_flags = 0
-		};
-
-		memset(&peer, 0, sizeof(peer));
-		peer.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
-		iov.iov_base = buf;
-		iov.iov_len = size;
-
-retry:		ret = recvmsg(h->fd, &msg, MSG_PEEK);
-		if (ret == -1) {
-			/* interrupted syscall must retry */
-			if (errno == EINTR)
-				goto retry;
-			/* otherwise give up */
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-		if (msg.msg_flags & MSG_TRUNC)
-			/* maximum size of data received from netlink */
-			size = 65535;
-	}
-
-	/* now, receive data from netlink */
 	while (1) {
-		unsigned char buf[size];
+		unsigned char buf[h->rcv_buffer_size];
 
 		ret = nfnl_recv(h, buf, sizeof(buf));
 		if (ret == -1) {