This patch adds the NETIO.SYS driver to ReactOS. NETIO.SYS
is part of Windows since NT6 (Vista).
The driver is not feature complete (meaning some functionality is
unimplemented) but does its job quite good for what it originally
was written for (which is getting WinDRBD working on
ReactOS/Windows Server 2003 SP2).
The driver re-uses parts of the AFD.SYS driver, namely those
functions that ease communitating with the transport device
interface (TDI). Other than that, following features are implemented
and should work:
* TCP/IP networking: connect, listen, accept, read, write
* UDP/IP networking: write
So in a nutshell TCP/IP support is completed, UDP support is
partially complete and ICMP support does not exist yet.
In particular the listen/accept mechanism allows one to write
kernel side TCP servers that one can connect to via the internet.
The netio driver is licensed under the MIT license, see the file
netio.c for more details.
Have fun with it :)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Khoshnazar-Thoma <[email protected]>
We want to use the TDI helper functions also in the NETIO.SYS
driver which comes with the next commit. The code was modernized
a bit (usage of DPRINT, doxygen style comments) but other than
that it was left unchanged.
Mikhail Tyukin