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 <l...@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
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