2015-08-24 13:18 GMT+02:00 Yang Luo <[email protected]>:

> Hi Pascal,
>
> I think you would like to add the link types that WinPcap defined but NDIS
> doesn't define, see:
> https://github.com/wireshark/winpcap/blob/master/Common/Packet32.h from
> Line: 76. Comments said that these are "Custom linktype: NDIS doesn't
> provide an equivalent". And it seems that Npcap loopback adapter will
> continue to use the "NdisMediumNull - DLT_NULL" pair for now.
>

Thanks for the link Yang, I was not aware of those defines. I also added
them to the patch.

Pascal.


>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Pascal Quantin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2015-08-24 12:30 GMT+02:00 Yang Luo <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi Pascal,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Pascal Quantin <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I personally think data returned by OID_GEN_MEDIA_IN_USE should be
>>>>> identical with the one returned by OID_GEN_MEDIA_SUPPORTED for our 
>>>>> loopback
>>>>> condition based on MSDN explanation, and it's "media" instead of "medium",
>>>>> so I think the display string should be modified to "Media in use" instead
>>>>> of "Medium in use".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Media is the plural form of medium. "media supported" could list
>>>> several medium, while only one can be in use at a given time. So the
>>>> current wording seems OK to me.
>>>> Note that I updated the list of enum (so as to support loopback value)
>>>> in https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/10225/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I knew that media is the plural form of medium:). And I rechecked the
>>> MSDN about OID_GEN_MEDIA_IN_USE  (see:
>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569607(v=vs.85).aspx),
>>> it said "*As a query, the OID_GEN_MEDIA_IN_USE OID specifies a complete
>>> list of the media types that the NIC currently uses.*". So I think that
>>> in Microsoft' point of view, "multiple" media can be in use at a given time
>>> (this looks weird for me too). But in practice, I didn't see "multiple"
>>> media are ever returned on the OID_GEN_MEDIA_IN_USE or
>>> OID_GEN_MEDIA_SUPPORTED request.
>>>
>>
>> I amended https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/10225/ with the rename.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Yang
>>>
>>>
>>>
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