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Q240969: NDIS May Not Return Proper Multicast Address List After a Reset

Article: Q240969
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): 4.0 SP4
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbnetwork
Last Modified: 10-AUG-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 SP4 
- Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition version 4.0 SP4 
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SYMPTOMS
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After you quit a program (such as Network Monitor, from the Microsoft Systems
Management Server CD-ROM) that resets the network adapter to turn off
Promiscuous mode, the network adapter's registers for the multicast address
appear to be cleared. A query to NDIS for OID_802_3_MULTICAST_LIST results in
NDIS returning an empty list. However, the proper address list is actually still
present in the network adapter and the empty list is being returned incorrectly.

RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0. For
additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack


Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbnetwork 
Technology        : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNT400search kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTSEntSearch kbWinNTSEnt400sp4 kbWinNTS400sp4 kbWinNTS400search
Version           : :4.0 SP4
Issue type        : kbprb

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