[ros-dev] NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport

[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 at 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.
> 
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> Daniel Maxime
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