[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routing

[Erik Tromp]

We had this discussion before (december 2006).

Using a polling mechanism to read the packets to be forwarded would
seriously impact the forwarding performance. Unless the polling
is done 1000 times/second, but that would monopolize the CPU.



> > I agree, OLSR should provide a way to plugins for them to 
> > thread-safely access (or at least read) the OLSR data.
> The other way would be easier.
> Plugins should be able to register their sockets in Olsrd so 
> they can be polled by the olsrd mainloop.
> 
> No need for two threads.
> 
> Henning