Native 802.11 Statistics
Important The Native 802.11 Wireless LAN interface is deprecated in Windows 10 and later. Please use the WLAN Device Driver Interface (WDI) instead. For more information about WDI, see WLAN Universal Windows driver model.
The Native 802.11 miniport driver operating in Extensible Station (ExtSTA) mode returns statistical counters when the OID_DOT11_STATISTICS object identifier (OID) is queried. The data type defined for this OID is the DOT11_STATISTICS structure, which returns the following types of statistics:
Media Access Control (MAC) statistics. For more information about these statistics, see
.
PHY statistics. For more information about these statistics, see Extensible Station PHY Statistics.
The miniport driver must unconditionally set all of the counters in the DOT11_STATISTICS structure to zero, including MAC-layer and PHY-layer counters, when one of the following occurs:
The driver's
function is called.
The driver's MiniportRequest function is called with a method request of the OID_DOT11_RESET_REQUEST, regardless of the type of reset operation specified in the method request.