diff -Nur olsrd-0.4.10.orig/src/parser.c olsrd-0.4.10/src/parser.c
--- olsrd-0.4.10.orig/src/parser.c	2005-11-19 09:49:44.000000000 +0100
+++ olsrd-0.4.10/src/parser.c	2006-12-04 09:12:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@
 #define strerror(x) StrError(x)
 #endif
 
+/* Sven-Ola: On very slow devices used in huge networks
+ * the amount of lq_tc messages is so high, that the 
+ * recv() loop never ends. This is a small hack to end
+ * the loop in this cases
+ */
+ 
+unsigned int cpu_overload_exit = 0;
+
 struct parse_function_entry *parse_functions;
 
 static char inbuf[MAXMESSAGESIZE+1];
@@ -347,9 +355,16 @@
   int cc;
   struct interface *olsr_in_if;
   union olsr_ip_addr from_addr;
-
+  cpu_overload_exit = 0;
+  
   for (;;) 
     {
+      if (32 < ++cpu_overload_exit)
+      {
+        OLSR_PRINTF(1, "CPU overload detected, ending olsr_input() loop\n")
+      	break;
+      }
+      
       fromlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage);
 
       cc = olsr_recvfrom(fd,