NDIS Driver Debugging Guidelines
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This paper provides guidelines for the NDIS driver developer to identify commonly-encountered issues in network drivers and specifies best practices that will help the driver developer avoid network driver issues. It also provides information on how to use Ndiskd.dll, the NDIS kernel debugger extension, to gather information about the state of NDIS and the NDIS drivers.
Included in this white paper:
| • | NDIS Overview
Using Ndiskd.dll to Debug NDIS Drivers |
| • | NDIS Tracing |
| • | NDIS Bug Checks |
| • | PnP Overview |
| • | Debugging a Miniport Initialization Problem |
| • | Debugging the Failure of a Miniport to Halt |
| • | Debugging Power Management Issues |
| • | Debugging Interrupt Storms |
| • | MiniportReset Overview |
| • | Best Practices for Developing Miniport Drivers
Tools – Using NDISTest and Driver Verifier |
| • | Best Practices for Developing Intermediate Drivers Common Intermediate Driver Issues |
| • | Best Practices for Developing Protocol Drivers |
| • | Call to Action and Resources |
