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 < [email protected]> 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. [image: EFA Logo] Disclaimer *From:* [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *?????V5 *Sent:* 5 de fevereiro de 2016 04:44 *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 10 support for WinPcap On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Mark Pizzolato - Winpcap-Users < [email protected]> 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. *From:* [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jiyang Hu *Sent:* Thursday, February 4, 2016 11:18 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [Winpcap-users] Windows 10 support for WinPcap @Sven: you need something called - Inverted Call Model The Inverted Call Model in KMDF - OSR [image: Image removed by sender. image] The Inverted Call Model in KMDF - OSR One of the most common questions we see from students, clients, and new Windows driver Read more View on *www.osr.com* Preview by Yahoo On Thursday, February 4, 2016 12:49 PM, Sven Kerschbaum <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]>: 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 <[email protected]>: 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
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