Accessing Ndis miniport from user mode application

Hi

The NDIS miniport driver my company write should support some custom
features.
Those features can be set and queried by user mode applications. Also
the driver should be able to signal
the application on certain events.

In http://www.ndis.com/faq/QA10290101.htm they describe several ways
to do that:

1. Using a device control object that the miniport creates and the
application IOCTL it
2. Accessing custom OIDs through IOCTL_NDIS_QUERY_GLOBAL_STATS
(support only OID query - so its not good for me)
3. Accessing custom OIDS through Protocol driver
4. Accessing custom OIDS through WMI.

Can anyone tell me what is the preffered/recommended method (I tend to
think that accessing the OIDs through WMI, but I would like to hear
what the pros think)

I am writing both NDIS 5 and NDIS 6 miniport drivers so I preffer a
solution which applies to both


Thanks
Miki

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