Maxim S. Shatskih said:
Am I correct that LH will have NDIS 6, which will provide the new
filtering
facility instead of PASSTHRU-style IMs?
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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LH provides NDIS 6 "Lightweight Filter" driver that replaces NDIS 5 IM
filter drivers.
LH will support a NDIS 6 MUX driver that is similar to the NDIS 5 MUX
driver - although with changes to most APIs.
AFAIK NDIS 6 will provide some "legacy" support for NDIS 5 IM filter drivers
(and NDIS 5 drivers in general...), however use of a NDIS 5 drivers on LH
will certainly put the host in a degraded mode of operation.
There is also a higher-level "Windows Filtering Platform" (WFP) API that
interfaces with TCP/IP stack internals. A really complex interface IMHO that
exposes a lot of things that MS needs for their firewall.
Thomas