Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. Default: 20
Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can’t span multiple datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don’t intend to).
The number of supported groups ‘M’ is bounded by the number of group report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes. So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
(65536-24) / 12 = 5459
The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice this number may be lower.
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