[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routing

[Erik Tromp]

> > 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.
> 

Who? The current OLSR implementation. In the current OLSR plugin system
the only possibility is to register your plugin function with a polling
time interval (olsr_register_scheduler_event).

The support for plugins to register their own packet handler is currently
not in OLSR, or is it? Maybe I missed something there?

Erik