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 | |
"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.
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