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route ip+net: netlinkrib: address family not supported by protocol [ESXi]

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Description

### What is the issue?

Attempted to run tailscaled on a VMware ESXi hypervisor but it fails immediately with the error below. I haven't been able to find any issues related to this error message or more details on what it is expecting in terms of the address family ...

```
./tailscaled --state=tailscaled.state -verbose 5
2023/09/16 19:44:20 netmon.New: route ip+net: netlinkrib: address family not supported by protocol
```

### Steps to reproduce

1. Download latest stable tailscale from https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/tailscale_1.48.2_amd64.tgz
2. Run tailscaled with following arguments: `--state=tailscaled.state -verbose 5`

### Are there any recent changes that introduced the issue?

Not sure

### OS

Other

### OS version

ESXi 8.0

### Tailscale version

1.48.2

### Other software

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### Bug report

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