On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ganesh Sathya Narayanan M wrote: > > I have a problem when I run the open vpn adapter over the > aceman pro pppoe adapter if I have one more ndis miniport > adaptor installed in my machine. > > I am using your open vpn tap adapter over a pppoe connection > to connect to my ssl vpn server. I have another NDIS > Miniport driver installed in my machine. This is the normal > NDIS miniport driver. When I try to install my open vpn tap > adapter I see a disconnect and connect of my pppoe > connection. My PPPOE adapter is the ACEMAN pro PPPOE adapter. > > Problem description > ============== > When I try to install a second NDIS mini port driver the OS > tries to stop the first NDIS miniport driver and then start > both the first and the second drivers. AceMan pro adaptor > gets the notification of this stopping of a particular driver > and disconnects and reconnects. This disconnect and > reconnect should not happen > > Is there any work around for this problem?
Unfortunately, the TAP-Win32 driver has very little control about how Windows installs it or uninstalls it. Installation of network drivers under Windows is a fairly heavyweight operation, and involves the rebuilding of the global network stack binding graph. The best place to ask if a workaround is possible is here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=microsoft.public.development.device.drivers James
