Re: PROBLEM: Multicast reception fail when setsockopt() used to setSO_RCVBUF to small.

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 15:58:37 EST


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:40:44 -0500
"Richard A. Hogaboom" <hogaboom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> See attached bug.report file and example code files.

Yes, if you set SO_RCVBUF too small, you will not receive packets if
they are large enough.

There is nothing multicast specific about this behavior, and it is
correct behavior as well.
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