Native 802.11 Extensible Station MIB objects

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Important

The Native 802.11 Wireless LAN interface is deprecated in Windows 10 and later. Please use the WLAN Device Driver Interface (WDI) instead. For more information about WDI, see WLAN Universal Windows driver model.

Some of the Extensible Station (ExtSTA) object identifiers (OIDs) are used to reference Extensible Station management information base (MIB) objects.

ExtSTA objects are attributes of the IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) layer. The miniport driver must set these MIB objects to their default values whenever any of the following occur:

  • The miniport driver's MiniportInitializeEx function is called.
  • A method request of OID_DOT11_RESET_REQUEST is made to reset the MAC layer of the 802.11 station and the bSetDefaultMIB member of the DOT11_RESET_REQUEST structure is TRUE.

The following table lists the ExtSTA OID name and the corresponding ExtSTA MIB object name. For more information about an ExtSTA MIB object, refer to the topic for the specific ExtSTA OID.

ExtSTA OID name Extensible Station MIB object name
OID_DOT11_ACTIVE_PHY_LIST msDot11ActivePhyList
OID_DOT11_AUTO_CONFIG_ENABLED msDot11AutoConfigEnabled
OID_DOT11_CURRENT_PHY_ID msDot11msDot11CurrentPhyID
OID_DOT11_DESIRED_BSSID_LIST msDot11DesiredBSSIDList
OID_DOT11_DESIRED_COUNTRY_OR_REGION_STRING msDot11DesiredCountryOrRegionString
OID_DOT11_DESIRED_PHY_LIST msDot11DesiredPhyList
OID_DOT11_DESIRED_SSID_LIST msDot11DesiredSSIDList
OID_DOT11_HIDDEN_NETWORK_ENABLED msDot11HiddenNetworkEnabled
OID_DOT11_ENABLED_AUTHENTICATION_ALGORITHM msDot11EnabledAuthAlgo
OID_DOT11_ENABLED_MULTICAST_CARRIER_CIPHER_ALGORITHM msDot11EnabledMulticastCipherAlgo
OID_DOT11_ENABLED_UNICAST_CARRIER_CIPHER_ALGORITHM msDot11EnabledUnicastCipherAlgo
OID_DOT11_EXCLUDED_MAC_ADDRESS_LIST msDot11ExcludedMacAddressList
OID_DOT11_HARDWARE_PHY_STATE msDot11HardwarePHYState
OID_DOT11_MEDIA_STREAMING_ENABLED msDot11MediaStreamingEnabled
OID_DOT11_POWER_MGMT_REQUEST msDot11PowerSavingLevel
OID_DOT11_PRIVACY_EXEMPTION_LIST msDot11PrivacyExemptionList
OID_DOT11_QOS_PARAMS msDot11QoSParams
OID_DOT11_SAFE_MODE_ENABLED msDot11SafeModeEnabled
OID_DOT11_UNICAST_USE_GROUP_ENABLED msDot11UnicastUseGroupEnabled
OID_DOT11_UNREACHABLE_DETECTION_THRESHOLD msDot11UnreachableDetectionThreshold

Unless an ExtSTA MIB object defines a specific default value, the Native 802.11 miniport driver defines its own default value for the MIB object.

Note

When the miniport driver receives an OID_DOT11_RESET_REQUEST method request, the miniport driver must reset an ExtSTA MIB object to its default value under the following conditions:

  • When MIB values for the MAC and/or PHY are reset to their default values only if bSetDefaultMIB is set to TRUE.
  • When MAC or PHY values are affected by the value of the dot11ResetType member.

For more information, refer to the topic for the specific ExtSTA OID.