Operational Characteristics of NDIS Object Identifiers

The following table shows MAC bridge support for the operational characteristics that are specifically defined for Ethernet drivers by NDIS.

OID name Description Bridge response
OID_802_3_PERMANENT_ADDRESS Permanent station address The bridge must use a MAC address that is both unique within the home network and also different from the MAC address of any of the bridge's NICs
OID_802_3_CURRENT_ADDRESS Current station address Same as OID_802_3_PERMANENT_ADDRESS
OID_802_3_MULTICAST_LIST Current multicast address list Query: Bridge returns the current multicast list

Set: Bridge driver records requested multicast addresses

OID_802_3_MAXIMUM_LIST_SIZE Maximum size of multicast address list A large value (0x000000FF)
OID_802_3_MAC_OPTIONS NIC flags (encoded) Not supported

See Also

Network Bridging Object Identifiers

 Last updated on Friday, April 09, 2004

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