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

[Chris Friesen]

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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