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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:54:18 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To:        Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Tuning of IP_MAX_MEMBERSHIPS for IP Multicast Sockets
Message-ID:  <20080117125418.GA88165@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
In-Reply-To: <478F4EF2.7060209@tomjudge.com>
References:  <478F4EF2.7060209@tomjudge.com>

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:49:54PM +0000, Tom Judge wrote:

> On RELENG_6_2 the max multicast memberships per socket 
> (IP_MAX_MEMBERSHIPS) is hard coded in sys/netinet/in.h to 20.
> 
> Would there be any problem with bumping this to say 40.  The problem is 
> our VPN routers running quagga (ospf) seem to be hitting this limit.
> 
> I know the problem is fixed on 7+ but would there be any adverse side 
> affects of bumping this value up?

Not at all. I raised the limit upto 200 for my 4.11-STABLE
quagga router 3 months ago and have no problems. There are 65 active now.

Eugene Grosbein



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