Re: Need guidance developing NIC driver

MUX-style driver 1-to-N is a solution. The MUX sample itself is N-to-1
(many virtual Ethernets on top of 1 physical).

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"Pavman" <William.Pav@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I've been tasked to look into writing a Network Adaptor driver for
> Win2K that presents two physical (possibly different vendor and/or
> model) PCI NIC cards as a single logical network card to the OS. The
> two cards will be on parallel networks and each have the same IP
> address (as each other). In addition, this logical N/W card needs to
> keep track of what other IP addresses exist on the network and whether
> they communicate wiuth "enhanced" TCP/IP. "Enhanced" TCP/IP is a
> protocal where the TCP/IP packet header is moved to the end of the data
> packet, and in its place, our own header is prepended to the data
> packet.
>
> These parallel networks are a process control network and are connected
> to DCU's (distributed control system controllers - glorified,
> programmable PCL's) which use the parallel networks for redundancy, but
> also they use the "enhanced" TCP/IP headers for network loading and
> statistic gathering.
>
> Our company currently has a PCI network card (we refer to it as an ECCP
> card) that has this parallel network capability, but the cards are a
> large form-factor (13" long card) and have a high power draw - its
> getting tougher to find computer chassis' that can fit the card as well
> as power it (with all the other goodies), as well as the fact that they
> are getting increasingly more expensive to manufacture. So the company
> wants to retire the ECCP card. I do have the source code for the ECCP
> card drive, as a place to start.
>
> We will only be supporting Win2K & later.
>
> I've gotten a pair of books on driver development:
> "Programming the MS Windows Driver Model" by Walter Oney and "The W2K
> Device Driver Book" by Baker and Lozano.
>
> In one of these books, it specifies that writing a network driver is
> not for the faint of heart, and will most probably take longer than
> anticipated!
>
> My managers are prodding me for a time schedule, and I don't even know
> where to begin!
>
> I've been poking around the Microsoft website looking for resources...
> I stumbled across this page:
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/resources/MVP/xtremeMVP_2thingsDB.mspx
>
> Written by Don Burn, in which he writes '"How do I get started writing
> a Windows Device Driver?" The best answer is to take a course.'
> However, no specific courses are suggested.
>
> Additionally, there is no email address for Mr. Burn (I suppose to
> protect him from getting emails like this one!) with which to ask about
> suggested courses.
>
> Could someone on this list suggest a good starting course for driver
> development? I have several years of Developer Studio (C++) behind me,
> but I have never attempted to write a device driver.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>


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