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NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty (NDIS 5.1) function

Note   NDIS 5. x has been deprecated and is superseded by NDIS 6. x. For new NDIS driver development, see Network Drivers Starting with Windows Vista. For information about porting NDIS 5. x drivers to NDIS 6. x, see Porting NDIS 5.x Drivers to NDIS 6.0.

NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty notifies a client that it should remove a particular party on a multipoint VC, usually because the call manager has received a request over the network to close an active multipoint connection.

Syntax

VOID NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty(
  _In_     NDIS_STATUS DropStatus,
  _In_     NDIS_HANDLE NdisPartyHandle,
  _In_opt_ PVOID       Buffer,
  _In_     UINT        Size
);

Parameters

  • DropStatus [in]
    Indicates the reason this party is being dropped, usually NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS if the remote party simply requested that its connection be closed.

  • NdisPartyHandle [in]
    Specifies the handle that identifies the party to be dropped from the multipoint VC, which must have other parties that are still connected.

  • Buffer [in, optional]
    Pointer to a caller-allocated resident buffer containing additional protocol-specific data received from the remote party, if any. Depending on the underlying medium, this pointer can be NULL. For example, this parameter is NULL on ATM networks.

  • Size [in]
    Specifies the size in bytes of the buffer, zero if Buffer is NULL.

Return value

None

Remarks

In the course of normal network operations, a stand-alone call manager's ProtocolCoReceivePacket function calls NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty with the CloseStatus set to NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS because a remote client on a multipoint connection has called NdisClCloseCall.

However, a call manager also can call NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty with a CM-determined CloseStatus at the behest of the network itself if abnormal network conditions occur, such as the failure of a switch on the path between the local client and one or more client(s) on an established multipoint connection.

A call to NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty causes NDIS to call the client's ProtocolClIncomingDropParty function.

If the NdisPartyHandle identifies the last remaining party on the given VC, the CM calls NdisCmDispatchIncomingCloseCall, rather than NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty.

Only stand-alone call managers, which register themselves with NDIS as protocols, can call NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty. Connection-oriented miniport drivers that provide integrated call-management support call NdisMCmDispatchIncomingDropParty instead.

Requirements

Target platform

Universal

Version

See NdisCmDispatchIncomingDropParty.

Header

Ndis.h (include Ndis.h)

Library

Ndis.lib

IRQL

<= DISPATCH_LEVEL

See also

NdisClDropParty

NdisCmDispatchIncomingCloseCall

NdisMCmDispatchIncomingDropParty

ProtocolClIncomingDropParty

ProtocolCoReceivePacket

 

 

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