[Olsr-users] Clarification about not compliant packet

[Lorenzo Salvatore]

Hi
I was trying to create a couple of parser for Hello and TC messages to add in a plugin. I've taken the default parsers to learn how to manage the packages. In the TC parser there were lots of strange thing but after checking I've understood that those were a set of operation to work with LQ. I'm neither interested nor annoyed by LQ, but if that modify packet I should know how.
For example, about Hello packet, I've seen that there is a check in the parser to know if the packet is a LQ Hello or not. In the first case it start the deserialization procedure for LQ (you can see those things in deserialize_hello). About TC packet the deserialization procedure is done every time, without checking if the packet is LQ or not. Why? Inside the deserialization process there is a check?
And then, if I let active the LQ plugin, every TC and Hello packets sent are LQ?
Anyway, how TC and Hello LQ packets are different from the standard?
Thanks in advance