Chris, I've been thinking about it, but it's a major effort (read it as "rewrite a good chunk of the kernel capture driver"). WHQL certification has not that important so far (we don't certify the driver, we just sign it), we install the driver in such a way that doesn't require WHQL certification.
Regarding XP, there is still a big community using it in corporate and non-corporate environments, so dropping support for it is definitely not an option. The advantages of migrating to NDIS6 would be - probably better performance (but it's not guaranteed) and in general avoiding to go thru the thunking layer between NDIS5 (what we currently use) and NDIS6 - support for RT (although I'm not sure if just supporting NDIS6 would be enough) - cleanup of the driver sources Have a nice day GV -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 8 > There will be, most probably by mid/end February. > > GV > Do you have plans to make a NDIS 6 version? According to the following link, NDIS 6 offers different possibilities for performance optimization and other features. NDIS 6 is required in order to obtain a WHQL certification. http://www.osronline.com/showthread.cfm?link=220627 According to this link, NDIS 6 is required if you want the driver to run on Windows RT: http://www.osronline.com/showThread.cfm?link=237365 AFAIK the NDIS 6 driver won't run on Windows XP. But Windows XP will stop receiving security updates in 2013, so the old NDIS 5 driver will not have to be maintained for a long time. Regards Chris Troester _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
