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

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David Miller wrote:
From: "Chris Friesen" <[email protected]>
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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