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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:36:04 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:32:14AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:34:13PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me why the maximum number of members in a multicast 
> > group is set at
> > 20?
> > Are there issues with increasing this number?

Ah. Your original question appears not to have been answered. My bad.

I do not see a limit on the members of a multicast group on FreeBSD
either for individual sockets or for multicast forwarding based on my
reading of the source code.

BMS