Handling the Reception of Network Management Messages
[The TCP chimney offload feature is deprecated and should not be used.]
An offload target does not process Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), or Routing Information Protocol (RIP) messages. Instead, an offload target forwards such messages to the host stack through the non-offload NDIS interface by calling the NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists function. The host stack processes such messages and, if necessary, updates state that has been offloaded to the offload target.