Re: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP

Check this table to find the *supported* ndis versions by platform... Ndis
5.0 is clearly no longer supported and is obsolete.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/overview-of-ndis-versions

Joe

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 6:38 PM ''Fish' (David B. Trout)'
[email protected] [hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Joe Monk wrote:
> > Fish wrote:
> >
> > > Any/ALL physically *wired* network adapters however
> > > should always work with CTCI-WIN (and thus Hercules
> > > networking), and since they're so cheap these days
> > > that's generally what I advise doing.
> >
> > Not for much longer ....
> >
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ff559027(v=vs.80)
> >
> > WinPCap is specifically based on NDIS 5.0 which is
> > a deprecated interface, and thus can be removed at
> > any time by MS without notice.
>
> NDIS 5.x may be deprecated, but it's still supported and will likely
> *continue* to be supported for quite a while yet:
>
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/network/ndis-6-0-backward-compatibility
>
> NDIS 6.x may be *recommended* for newer driver development, but AFAIK it
> is not *required* (nor will it likely ever be).
>
> I suspect WinPCap 4.13 (and thus CTCI-WIN) will continue to work fine for
> quite a few years yet.
>
> --
> "Fish" (David B. Trout)
> Software Development Laboratories
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> mail: [email protected]
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