What is NDIS?

NDIS is short for Network Driver Interface Specification. The main purpose of NDIS is
Is to develop a standard API for NIC (network interface card, Netwok interface cards. Mac
(Media Access Controller) the device driver encapsulates all Nic hardware.
In this way, all NICs using the same media can be accessed through common programming interfaces.

NDIS also provides a function library (also called wrapper). functions in this library can be
Mac driver calls can also be driven by high-level protocols (such as TCP/IP. These wrapper letters
The number of MAC drivers and Protocol drivers makes development easier. At the same time, these wrapper functions are also reduced
Less driverProgramDependencies on the work platform.

Earlier versions of NDIS were jointly developed by Microsoft and 3com. WFW (Windows
Workgroups) the NDIS version used in Windows 9x and Windows NT is developed by Microsoft.
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