jamal wrote: > >>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 :/ > > > Yes, this is TheWayItHasBeen(tm). > Patrick had a patch a while back to allow for subscribing to higher > groups because bind() has a similar issue in that it allows you only to > subscribe to the first 32. So it is logical to fix connect, and sendmsg > in a similar fashion.
For sendmsg I'd suggest to use cmsgs as in recvmsg(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html