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FromBen Pfaff <>
SubjectRe: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)
DateThu, 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.
-- 
"A computer is a state machine.
 Threads are for people who cant [sic] program state machines."
--Alan Cox



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