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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:55:05 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Richard A. Hogaboom" <hogaboom@ll.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Multicast reception fail when setsockopt() used to set
 SO_RCVBUF to small.
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:40:44 -0500
"Richard A. Hogaboom" <hogaboom@ll.mit.edu> 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.