Re: CoNDIS question

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"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ONp$2pf5FHA.444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Are you speaking about the PPP network adapter?

Not exactly. it is "point to point" in sense that it connects exactly two nodes; there are
no other nodes like in normal ethernet. But it does not utilise PPP protocol.
Though PPP could work over this link as well.

--PA


> --
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
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> "Pavel A." <pavel_a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:303132C2-6175-4DA7-B287-4CB620EB8F91@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Thanks Maxim.
>> Then co-ndis is not what I need - if some other flavors of co-ndis that
>> do not involve PPP and let me handle ARPs don't exist.
>>
>> --PA
>>
>> "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:
>> > > Does NDISWAN always attach to any CoNDIS MAC?
>> >
>> > Surely. NDISWAN has - among other things - a CoNDIS protocol lower edge for
>> > "TAPI proxy" family.
>> >
>> > Your CoNDIS WAN miniport must have a MCM upper edge for "TAPI" family.
>> >
>> > The entity which ties the stuff together is NDProxy.sys, who is a protocol
> for
>> > "TAPI" family and the call manager for "TAPI proxy" family. NDProxy also
>> > exposes the set of IOCTLs callable by user-mode TAPI stuff.
>> >
>> > NDProxy governs dialing and accepting calls, but the data transport is from
>> > your packet to NDISWAN. NDISWAN does PPP compression/crypto stuff,
> multiplexing
>> > based on protocol ID, and also IPCP stuff. It also has the IOCTL interface
>> > which is called by user-mode RAS DLLs.
>> >
>> > So, NDISWAN is always active. It is the PPP core.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
>> > StorageCraft Corporation
>> > maxim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > http://www.storagecraft.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
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