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Update NDIS LWF to 6.83 for USO support

Open Jammrock opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Windows has a newer UDP offloading feature that requires NDIS 6.83 compatibility, called UDP Segmentation Offload (USO).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/udp-segmentation-offload-uso-

This feature is available on newer NICs running on Windows 10 2004 and newer. I'm not sure there are any confirmed issues yet, since USO is relatively new, but an older NDIS LWF driver may conflict with USO as they have with RSC and QoS in the past.

https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases

On Windows 8 and 8.1, the Npcap driver has been updated to NDIS 6.30,
supporting network stack improvements like RSC and QoS. Windows 10 still uses
NDIS 6.50 and Windows 7 uses NDIS 6.20.

Jammrock avatar Aug 01 '23 14:08 Jammrock