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This release includes a systematic review of the PCAUSA TDI samples and migration to use of the Windows Server 2003 DDK. Highlights of this release include:

For more details about the changes provided in V2.02.06.14 see the Release Notes.
For general information about the PCAUSA Advanced TDI Samples see the TDI Samples Product Information page.

Rawether .NET is a .NET Framework API that provides a uniform API between user-mode applications and NDIS drivers. Basically, it is a C# version of the current Rawether for Windows 'C' API - but greatly extended.

The initial Rawether .NET release will provide this rich, consistent NDIS user-mode API across the Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 platforms as well as the Windows CE-based Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2003 platforms to the current Rawether for Windows NDIS protocol driver suite.

(Future releases are even more interesting...)

See Rawether .NET Is Coming!!!

For additional information:

There a some additional changes worthy of note:

For additional information:

PCAUSA has activated the NDIS.COM domain. We intend to use this new domain name to organize and publish information of specific interest to NDIS software developers.

Most of the PCAUSA NDIS developer's resource information will be moved from www.pcausa.com and www.rawether.net to one central location. During the move we plan to review and update the existing NDIS developer resource information - as well as add new information.

Rawether consists of a dynamically-loaded NDIS protocol driver and API that allows a Win32 application to access NDIS LAN adapters to make NDIS requests to query and set information and to send and receive "raw" Ethernet packets.

Rawether for Windows CE is already being incorporated into Windows CE products for 802.11b products, including:

For More Information Visit:

[ PCAUSA Embedded Website... ]

Or Contact:

Thomas F. Divine
Printing Communications Assoc., Inc. (PCAUSA)
4201 Brunswick Court, Smyrna GA 30080 USA
Tel: 770-432-4580
FAX: 770 234-4182
Internet: info@pcausa.com

Individually each of the PCAUSA samples have proven useful to those who have chosen to license them. However, collectively they may be even more useful.

The utility of having the complete collection of PCAUSA samples has been noticed by several customers who have "ordered one of everything". In response, PCAUSA has provided these customers with significant discounts, as described in the new PCAUSA Universal Product Bundle description.

[Universal Product Bundle Information ]

This is PCAUSA's port of the Unix Test TCP (TTCP) benchmark utility.

[ PCATTCP Utility ]

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The documentation is provided as compiled HtmlHelp. It should be viewable won Windows 2000 and Windows XP. On other platforms it may be necessary to install Html Help Viewer updates. Go to the Microsoft Download Center and search for "Html Help Downloads".

[ New NDIS IM Driver Interim Documentation ]

PCAUSA is making the initial release of NDIS hooking samples for all Windows platforms.

The new NDIS hooking samples include samples for the following platforms:

PCAUSA offers an upgrade path for existing customers with the NDIS PIM 9X/ME samples to these new samples that support Windows NT/W2K/WXP.

[ PCAUSA NDIS hooking Samples For All Windows Platforms ]

PCAUSA has released the PCAUSA NDIS Developer Tools. They are a collection of NDIS-related utilities that you may find useful.

At this time the PCAUSA NDIS Developer Tools collection includes:

[ PCAUSA NDIS Developer Tools ]

Simply put, over the next few years interest in Windows 9X file system development will surely decline.

A link to the orphan product description page is provided below. The product can be provided by Special Order if it is really needed.

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Fixed bugs associated with operation of NDIS PIM over Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and PGPnet Virtual Private Networking (PGP) V6.5.X.

A brief discussion about how to use the NDIS wrapper library functions to inspect the contents of a NDIS_PACKET.

We took some time to put together a few notes that we hope will be helpful to new network device driver developers.

The Windows NT 4.0 DDK includes a sample application called MACADDR. The MACADDR sample illustrated the use of Win32 DeviceIoControl calls to access NDIS MAC drivers using IOCTL_NDIS_QUERY_GLOBAL_STATS. Using this IOCTL a Win32 application can have limited access to a NDIS MAC driver without needing the support of a companion NDIS protocol driver. This can be useful to network-aware applications - especially MAC vendor diagnostic tools.

The technique illustrated in the MACADDR sample actually works on Windows 2000. However, the MACADDR sample is omitted from the Windows 2000 DDK, probably because it would simply be impractical to enter the GUID from the command line.

The PCAUSA MACADDR II sample illustrates the use of IOCTL_NDIS_QUERY_GLOBAL_STATS on both Windows NT and Windows 2000. In addition, it partially illustrates walking the Windows NetCard registry key to find known NDIS adapters.

A second-generation suite of three driver samples that provide an in-depth illustration of how to use the Transport Data Interface (TDI) for TCP/IP networking from your kernel mode Windows NT driver.

The samples illustrate these basic TDI operations:

The samples also illustrate these more advanced TDI Operations

The product includes over 80 pages of documentation and over 10,000 lines (151 pages) of heavily commented driver sample code.

Visit the RawEther.NET site for the most up-to-date information about Rawether for Windows and the Win32 NDIS Framework.

Includes bug fix for operation with "legacy" adapters.

Includes bug fix for operation with "legacy" adapters and corrects an ASSERT that is seen on CHECKED build systems.

The samples illustrate these basic TDI operations:

The samples also illustrate these more advanced TDI Operations

The product includes over 80 pages of documentation and over 10,000 lines (151 pages) of heavily commented driver sample code.

Of significance is the fact that: TDIQ is platform-independent...

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Specifically, the V1.00.00.06 emulator inserted the latency delay one-packet-at-a-time. For example, if four packets were transmitted "concurrently", the last packet would be delayed by four times the latency setting. This is not correct. Since the four packets were transmitted "concurrently", they should all four packets should be delayed by only one times the latency setting.