Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:21:39 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) |
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David Miller wrote: > From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> > Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:54 -0600 > > >>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. Also, it appears that only root is allowed to use multicast netlink.
Chris
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