This patch adds the IP_MULTICAST_ALL option to the ip.7 man page, to bring it up to date with 2.6.31 development. Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man7/ip.7 | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 index ab866a1..6932ba2 100644 --- a/man7/ip.7 +++ b/man7/ip.7 @@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ and retrieve the MTU by calling with the .B IP_MTU option. - It is possible to implement RFC 4821 MTU probing with .B SOCK_DGRAM or @@ -383,6 +382,15 @@ When an invalid socket option is passed, .B ENOPROTOOPT is returned. .TP +.BR IP_MULTICAST_ALL " (since Linux 2.6.30)" +Sets the multicast delivery policy to the socket. Argument is a boolean +integer that enables or disables multicast delivery from all groups. +If not set, delivery to the socket is restricted to data from those multicast +groups that have been explicitly subscribed to via a multicast join operation +for this socket. The default is 1 which means that a socket which is bound +to the wildcard address (INADDR_ANY) will receive multicast packets from all +groups that have been subscribed to on this system. +.TP .BR IP_MULTICAST_LOOP " (since Linux 1.2)" Sets or reads a boolean integer argument that determines whether sent multicast packets should be looped back to the local sockets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
