Network Device Interface Specification
<networking, hardware, standard> (NDIS) A Microsoft Windows device driver
programming interface allowing multiple protocols to share the same network
hardware. E.g. TCP/IP and IPX on the same NIC. NDIS can also be used by some
ISDN adapters.
A protocol manager accepts requests from the transport layer and passes them to
the data link layer (routed to the correct network interface if there is more
than one).
NDIS was developed by Microsoft and 3COM. Novell offers a similar device driver
for NetWare called Open Data-Link Interface (ODI).
The NDIS 2.0 specification was 5000 lines.
Current version: NDIS 5.0, as of 2000-10-30.
Home.
cdrom.com NDIS archive.
["3TECH, The 3COM Technical Journal", Winter 1991].
(2000-10-30)
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