Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Pfaff <> | Subject | Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) | Date | Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:54:53 -0800 |
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"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> writes:
> David Miller wrote: >> From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> >>> One problem we ran into was that there are only 32 multicast groups >>> per netlink protocol family. >> I'm pretty sure we've removed this limitation. > As of 2.6.23 nl_groups is a 32-bit bitmask with one bit per > group.
Use setsockopt(fd, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, ...) to join an arbitrary Netlink multicast group. -- "A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who cant [sic] program state machines." --Alan Cox
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