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OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM

As a query, the OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM OID specifies the types of physical media that the NIC supports. This OID is essentially an extension of OID_GEN_MEDIA_SUPPORTED.

Version Information

Windows Vista and later versions of Windows

Supported.

NDIS 6.0 and later miniport drivers

Not requested.

The following physical media types were added for NDIS 6.0 and later drivers:

  • NdisPhysicalMediumNative802_11

  • NdisPhysicalMediumInfiniband

  • NdisPhysicalMediumWiMax

  • NdisPhysicalMediumUWB

  • NdisPhysicalMedium802_3

  • NdisPhysicalMedium802_5

  • NdisPhysicalMediumIrda

  • NdisPhysicalMediumWiredWAN

  • NdisPhysicalMediumWiredCoWan

  • NdisPhysicalMediumOther

NDIS 5.1 miniport drivers

Optional. See OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM (NDIS 5.1).

Windows XP

Supported.

NDIS 5.1 miniport drivers

Optional. See OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM (NDIS 5.1).

Remarks

NDIS handles this OID for NDIS 6.0 and later miniport drivers. The miniport drivers supplies the physical medium value during initialization.

Miniport drivers report a physical media type to differentiate their physical media from media that they declared to support in the OID_GEN_MEDIA_SUPPORTED OID query. These media types are listed as a proper subset of the following system-defined values from the NDIS_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM enumeration:

NdisPhysicalMediumUnspecified

The physical medium is none of the preceding mediums. For example, a one-way satellite feed is an unspecified physical medium.

NdisPhysicalMediumWirelessLan

Packets are transferred over a wireless LAN network through a miniport driver that conforms to the 802.11 interface. For more information about this interface, see. 802.11 Wireless LAN Miniport Drivers

NdisPhysicalMediumCableModem

Packets are transferred over a DOCSIS-based cable network.

NdisPhysicalMediumPhoneLine
Packets are transferred over standard phone lines.
Includes, for example, HomePNA media.
NdisPhysicalMediumPowerLine

Packets are transferred over wiring that is connected to a power distribution system.

NdisPhysicalMediumDSL
Packets are transferred over a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) network.
Includes, for example, ADSL and UADSL (G.Lite).
NdisPhysicalMediumFibreChannel

Packets are transferred over a Fibre Channel interconnect.

NdisPhysicalMedium1394

Packets are transferred over an IEEE 1394 bus.

NdisPhysicalMediumWirelessWan

Packets are transferred over a Wireless WAN link. Includes, for example, CDPD, CDMA, and GPRS.

NdisPhysicalMediumNative802_11

Packets are transferred over a wireless LAN network through a miniport driver that conforms to the Native 802.11 interface. For more information about this interface, see Native 802.11 Wireless LAN Miniport Drivers.

Note  The Native 802.11 interface is supported in NDIS 6.0 and later and later and later versions.

NdisPhysicalMediumBluetooth

Packets are transferred over a Bluetooth network. Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that uses the 2.4 GHz spectrum.

NdisPhysicalMediumInfiniband

The Infiniband physical medium. Packets are transferred over an infiniband interconnect.

NdisPhysicalMediumWiMax

The WiMax physical medium. Packets are transferred over a broadband wireless network through a miniport driver that conforms to the IEEE 802.16 standard.

NdisPhysicalMediumUWB

The Ultra Wideband (UWB) physical medium. Packets are transferred over a UWB network. UWB is a radio frequency platform that personal area networks can use to wirelessly communicate over short distances at high speeds.

NdisPhysicalMedium802_3

The Ethernet (802.3) physical medium. Packets are transferred over a wired LAN through a miniport driver that conforms to the 802.3 interface specification. This medium type does not include devices that emulate 802.3.

NdisPhysicalMedium802_5

The Token Ring physical medium. (802.5 is not supported in NDIS 6.0 and later and later drivers.) Packets are transferred over a Token Ring network through a miniport driver that conforms to the 802.5 interface specification.

NdisPhysicalMediumIrda

The infrared (IrDA) physical medium. Packets are transferred over a nonvisible, infrared light spectrum IrDA network.

NdisPhysicalMediumWiredWAN

The wired, wide area network (WAN) physical medium. Packets are transferred over a wired WAN.

NdisPhysicalMediumWiredCoWan

The wired, connection-oriented WAN physical medium. Packets are transferred over a wired WAN in a connection-oriented environment.

NdisPhysicalMediumOther

The physical medium is none of the preceding mediums. NdisPhysicalMediumOther specifies a new physical medium type that is not present in the NDIS_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM enumeration.

NDIS supports the OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM OID for miniport adapters that support newer networks, even though those networks transfer packets that appear to the operating system and to NDIS as standard and well known media types.

Newer networks transfer packets that might appear like standard media but that might have new features or slight differences from the standard. This OID was developed so upper-layer drivers and applications could determine the actual networks to which a NIC connects. After retrieving information about underlying networks, upper-layer drivers and applications could use this information to modify how such drivers and applications behave.

To clearly distinguish an 802.3 NIC from an emulated 802.3 NIC for which there is no physical medium type defined, NDIS 6.0 and later and later and later versions require 802.3 miniport drivers to report NdisPhysicalMedium802_3.

Requirements

Header
Ntddndis.h (include Ndis.h)

See also

OID_GEN_MEDIA_SUPPORTED

 

 

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