USBLAN for Windows - RNDIS Protocol Support

Belcarra is pleased to announce the addition of the RNDIS protocol to their USBLAN for Windows Network over USB solution (http://usblan.belcarra.com/),

Belcarra’s USB Class Driver is a suite of products which enables networking over the USB link. Belcarra’s RNDIS implementation provides several USBLAN features including faster data transfer abilities. The addition of RNDIS gives Belcarra's USBLAN for Windows the most complete set of USB networking protocols available in a single driver product.

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Contact us to receive your evaluation copy of the  USBLAN 2.4.4 release.

Virtual Driver for USB Network Devices

USBLAN for Mac OS/X

Belcarra’s new Virtual Driver for Networked USB devices greatly improves the end user experience for interfacing smart devices to the Mac OS/X desktop.

Traditional solutions create a network interface for each attached device requiring the user to find and then configure a network service for the interface with the correct operating parameters (IP address etc.)

Belcarra’s solution features a Virtual Network Interface that is created when the system is started. This interface can be configured to a static IP address or simply default to use the normal DHCP configuration.

USBLAN 2.4.1 Available

USBLAN 2.4.0 release provided support for CDC-NCM and Microsoft NDIS 6.

USBLAN 2.4.1 now adds support for the Microsoft RNDIS protocol.

OEM's with with WinCE, embedded Linux or other devices configured to use RNDIS can now simply take advantage of USBLAN's many networking features such as:

• DHCP Service – DHCP service is not need on target or Windows, USBLAN's built in DHCP server option can be used to co-ordinate and assign address of both the host and device network interfaces 
• Composite function – the USBLAN driver is fully compatible with the Windows USB composite function support 
• WHQL – drivers are fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) tests and procedures 
• Multiple devices can be connected allowing peer to peer networking and to the Windows desktop.

An evaluation version and OEM manual are freely available

Belcarra EEM Configuration Extension Descriptor

The CDC-EEM protocol is capable of aggregating multiple network datagrams into a single Bulk Data transfer.

The standard does not implement a mechanism to allow the host and device to determine an appropriate size for Bulk transfers. While implementing EEM without this information is possible, it complicates the implementation. If the Host and Device know what the capabilities of the other end are (WRT to transfer size especially) then the driver implementations can be significantly simpler and easier to implement.