[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routing

[Henning Rogge]

Am Freitag 22 Februar 2008 09:54:35 schrieb 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.
Who talks about polling ?

just use a select() statement to wait until one of the sockets receive a 
message.

Henning


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