8/22/03 - Some PCAUSA customers who are using the multi-packet read drivers
have expressed an interest in "improving real-time responsiveness" by
setting lower values for the read timeout.

A driver that addresses this issue is available for testing (W2K version
only at the moment...).

Please contact me directly if you are specifically interested in this issue
and would like to test the candidate driver.

There will be additional improvements before the next release, but we would
like early feedback on this topic.

Here are a list of other issues that are addressed in this pre-Beta release:

Windows Version : 5.03.16.56
Build.Revision : 1656.0
Release Date : 8/22/03

*** LIMITED EXTERNAL TESTING ***

1.) New PreFast tool introduced in Windows DDK Build 3790 identified a few
defects.

2.) Updated W32NDIS.h with OIDs and structures for Wi-Fi Protected Access
(WPA). Also updated OIDScope and NDIScope with WPA OIDs.

3.) Fixed bug that surfaced when running Rawether over Agnitum Outpost
Firewall. The bug was that a BSOD occurred immediately. :-(

4.) Fixed bug in driver BPF update logic. Now protect updating the BPF
program with spin lock. Lack of this synchronization mechanism caused
problems when applications changed the BPF frequently after packet reception
had been started.

5.) Additional sanity checks for adapter close in progress when handling
request, send and receive IRPs.

6.) Fixed bug where W32N_CloseAndFreeOpenContext was called at IRQL <
PASSIVE_LEVEL (spin lock help) leading to an occasional bugcheck
when NdisFreeSpinLock was called.

7.) Made changes to MPR driver to provide "better real-time responsiveness".
Can now set read timeout value to lower values. Eliminated hard-coded
timer interval that prevented small read timeout values from having an
effect.

Regards,

Thomas F. Divine