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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: multicasting netlink messages to groups > 31 from userspace
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:12:44 +0200
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Looking through the code that uses NL_NONROOT_SEND I just realised that
> it's impossible to send multicast messages from userspace to multicast
> groups with IDs higher than 31. That's not really good given that
> everywhere else we handle multicast groups up to 2^32-1 :/


Why do you want to send to a multicast group from userspace?