NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport

[Maxime Daniel]

Hello,

I need to use NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport functions to provide a virtual ethernet
card. I read the documentation on MSDN and it seems that this functions is required to
build an adapter without physical link (eg, with no hardware IRQ).

The problem is that this function is not implemented yet on reactos (svn rev. 62083). Is
someone can tell me if it's implementable or if there is an alternative to build a
virtual ethernet adapter with current implementation of NDIS.

Thanks.

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Daniel Maxime
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[Cameron Gutman]

There’s no requirement to have any real hardware behind a miniport. You can use
NdisMRegisterMiniport and return whatever media type you want in your MiniportInitialize
function (most likely NdisMedium802_3 to use Ethernet framing).

On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Maxime Daniel <ls(a)maxux.net> wrote:

>   Hello,
>  
>  I need to use NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport functions to provide a virtual ethernet
> card. I read the documentation on MSDN and it seems that this functions is required to
> build an adapter without physical link (eg, with no hardware IRQ).
>  
>  The problem is that this function is not implemented yet on reactos (svn rev. 62083). Is
> someone can tell me if it's implementable or if there is an alternative to build a
> virtual ethernet adapter with current implementation of NDIS.
>  
>  Thanks.
>  
>  -- 
>  Daniel Maxime
>  Linux version 3.6.9-maxux64 (emy) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5) )
> #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 19 16:40:22 CET 2014
>  14:02:53 up 1 day, 21:38,  1 user,  load average: 0.17, 0.26, 0.23
>  
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[Maxime Daniel]

Thanks

How/when MiniportInitialize is triggered ?
I tried with NdisMRegisterMiniport at first, and the driver is loaded (DriverEntry is
called and succeed) but MiniportInitialize is not called. Should I specify something ?
There is no PnP event.

(Cameron Gutman <cameron.gutman(a)reactos.org>) Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:30:49 -0500:

>   There’s no requirement to have any real hardware
> behind a miniport. You can use NdisMRegisterMiniport and return whatever media type you
> want in your MiniportInitialize function (most likely NdisMedium802_3 to use Ethernet
> framing).
>  
>  On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Maxime Daniel <ls(a)maxux.net> wrote:
>  
> >   Hello,
> >  
> >  I need to use NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport functions to provide a virtual ethernet
> > card. I read the documentation on MSDN and it seems that this functions is required to
> > build an adapter without physical link (eg, with no hardware IRQ).
> >  
> >  The problem is that this function is not implemented yet on reactos (svn rev. 62083). Is
> > someone can tell me if it's implementable or if there is an alternative to build a
> > virtual ethernet adapter with current implementation of NDIS.
> >  
> >  Thanks.
> >  
> >  -- 
> >  Daniel Maxime
> >  Linux version 3.6.9-maxux64 (emy) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5) )
> > #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 19 16:40:22 CET 2014
> >  14:02:53 up 1 day, 21:38,  1 user,  load average: 0.17, 0.26, 0.23
> >  
> >  _______________________________________________
> >  Ros-dev mailing list
> >  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> >  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev 
>  
>  
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