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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:54:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873aufkste.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4758CA53.7000407@nortel.com

"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


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05 16:40 New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Renzo Davoli
2007-12-05 21:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-06  5:38   ` Renzo Davoli
2007-12-06  5:43     ` Renzo Davoli
2007-12-06  6:04     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-05 23:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06  5:30   ` Renzo Davoli
2007-12-06  6:19     ` Kyle Moffett
2007-12-06  6:59       ` David Newall
2007-12-06 16:34         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 22:21           ` David Newall
2007-12-06 22:42             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 16:35     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 20:36       ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-06 21:26         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 21:49           ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-06 22:07             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 22:18               ` Renzo Davoli
2007-12-06 22:38                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07  0:18                   ` Renzo Davoli
2007-12-06 23:02               ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-06 23:06                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 23:42                   ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-07  3:41         ` David Miller
2007-12-07  4:21           ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-07  4:54             ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
2007-12-07  6:40             ` David Miller
2007-12-07 10:03               ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-07 21:18                 ` AF_IPN: Inter Process Networking, try these Renzo Davoli
2007-12-08  2:07                   ` David Miller
2007-12-10 16:05               ` New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Chris Friesen

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