[Winpcap-users] Windows 10 support for WinPcap

Fri Feb 5 16:26:35 UTC 2016

I cannot find any information about the function
IoctlNdisQueryGlobalStats(...). Do you have a link? I agree that is not an
option to query the media state in a loop. I have a working solution using
WMI but the notification is not in real-time. I sometimes experience a
delay of a few seconds...
I believe query NDIS for OID_GEN_MEDIA_CONNECT_STATUS is a waste of
resource if it is put in a loop. Getting a notification of media state
change asynchronously should be better. My 2 cents.

On Friday, February 5, 2016 9:23 AM, Nuno Antonio Dias Ferreira <
nuno.ferreira at efacec.com> wrote:

Hi Sven,

I have an application where I am using npcap and I also have the need to
detect the media status changes. To do that I query NDIS to get that
information:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569604(v=vs.85).aspx

Here is an example:
if(IoctlNdisQueryGlobalStats(Iface->IOCTLhandler,
OID_GEN_MEDIA_CONNECT_STATUS, &ConnectedState, sizeof(ConnectedState),
(PUINT)&ReturnedCount) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
      {
            return ConnectedState == NdisMediaStateConnected;
      }

Hope this information could be helpful.

Melhores Cumprimentos / Best Regards
Nuno Antonio Dias Ferreira
Unidade de Automação de Sistemas de Energia / Power System Automation Unit
Efacec Energia, Máquinas e Equipamentos Elétricos, S.A.
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Winpcap-Users <
winpcap-users-20040408 at subscriptions.pizzolato.net> wrote:

The inverted call model might be useful in an abstract way to get notified
of a media
state change, however, the question then comes back to how to convey that
detail
to the application which is using the libpcap APIs.

Since the only APIs that an application which already has a pcap session
opened
is using are: pcap_next_ex, pcap_dispatch, pcap_loop and possibly
pcap_sendpacket

pcap_next_ex, pcap_dispatch and pcap_loop are defined to return -1 on an
error.
Is media state change an error?
                Is media offline an error?

I prefer to use the phrases in ncpa.cpl.
If the adapter disconnects (like Wi-Fi), libpcap API should only report
time-out (you don't get any new packets).
If the adapter is disabled, libpcap API may report error (or time-out)? I
didn't try this. One thing for sure is that you can't get new packets too.
This thing should not happen when using Npcap/WinPcap. Because when listing
adapters with Npcap/WinPcap, disabled adapters never show up on the list.
So Npcap/WinPcap assumes that the adapters it uses is always kept as
enabled.

pcap_sendpacket is defined to return -1 if a packet wasn’t successfully
sent.
                It would seem that returning -1 when the media is offline
makes sense

This makes sense to me.

I don’t know for sure how WinPcap behaves under these conditions, but it
seems that it npcap should reliably report errors under the media offline
state.
Is there a reason it can’t?

Npcap actually doesn't report errors any better than WinPcap. There's even
a chance that Npcap behaves different on reporting errors with WinPcap.
Because Npcap uses NDIS6 and WinPcap uses NDIS5.

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@Sven: you need something called - Inverted Call Model

The Inverted Call Model in KMDF - OSR

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On Thursday, February 4, 2016 12:49 PM, Sven Kerschbaum <svkers at gmail.com>
wrote:

@Yang: It is not possible to get notifications of media state changes by
the API which you proposed in your previous post. It provides only
notifications about IP table changes.
Am 04.02.2016 16:31 schrieb "Sven Kerschbaum" <svkers at gmail.com>:

Hi Yang,

thanks for providing me the detailed information about Npcap. I will
definitively have a look at it and try it.

Cheers,
SK

2016-02-04 13:04 GMT+01:00 食肉大灰兔V5 <hsluoyz at gmail.com>:

Hi Sven,

Npcap (https://github.com/nmap/npcap) has better performance because of
NDIS 6. It also has several new features:

I actually didn't add a function about making user software getting
notified about media state changes. From my knowledge I don't know there's
any support of such a function in libpcap. libpcap is an interface standard
followed by WinPcap/Npcap. However, I think you can do it using native
Windows APIs (like Receiving Notification of Network Events in
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366334(v=vs.85).aspx).
And if you have any improvement advice about Npcap, I will consider it:)

Cheers,
Yang

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