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    SubjectRe: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)
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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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