Supporting NDIS 6.0 Protocol Binding Pause and Restart Operations

NDIS 6.0 introduces driver stack pause and restart capabilities. A pause operation transitions a protocol binding to the Paused state. A restart operation transitions a protocol binding to the Running state. For an overview of binding states, see Binding States of a Protocol Driver.

NDIS can pause the driver stack during Plug and Play operations, such as adding or removing a filter driver or binding or unbinding a protocol driver. To stop protocol driver data flow before performing a Plug and Play operation, NDIS calls a protocol driver's ProtocolNetPnPEvent function and specifies a pause event. The protocol binding remains in the Pausing state until the pause operation has been completed.

NDIS calls the protocol driver's ProtocolNetPnPEvent function and specifies a restart event to return the protocol binding to the Running state.

For more information about pause and restart operations, see Driver Stack Management.

For more information about NDIS 6.0 protocol driver Plug and Play events, see Porting Protocol Driver Plug and Play Event Notification Handling to NDIS 6.0.