[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routing

[Roar Bjørgum Rotvik]

Erik Tromp wrote:
>>> 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?

A plugin can use the function add_olsr_socket() (see src/socket_parser.c) to add a socket 
and a callback function so that the main event loop (select()?) in olsrd may call a 
function in the plugin when data is available.

Is this what you asked for?

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Roar Bjørgum Rotvik