How to set IP address in kernel mode driver without system reboot in Vista

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I’ve ever written a kernel mode driver to set host IP address/mask before system fully started. The mechanism is modify registry value related to specific NIC under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip.. in a boot driver. It works well in W2k/Wxp/W2k3, however it fails in Windows Vista.

So my questions are:

  1. Does this mechanism still work in Vista? Or it is totally infeasible?
  2. I am thinking about to use NDIS Filter driver to hook some OID request to achieve same goal, is it possible?

Any other ideas, please kind let me know, thanks a lot.