NDIS Driver Fails To Check Functional Address
Article ID: 163725
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q163725
SYMPTOMS
On a computer running Windows NT and using Token Ring network cards,
packets that are addressed to certain functional addresses may be dropped,
indicating a failure in the NDIS (network driver interface specification)
driver.
CAUSE
The NDIS driver fails to check for combined functional addresses in order
to find a matching address to the destination functional address of the
incoming packet. A combined functional address is the logical OR of
multiple functional addresses that the token ring network card listens to.
RESOLUTION
The NDIS driver has been modified to check for combined functional
addresses.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0.
This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service
Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Additional query words: ndis
Keywords: kbbug kbnetwork KB163725