NDIS

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Network Device Interface Specification
NDIS

   <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.

   Latest version: NDIS 5.0, as of 2000-10-30.

   (http://microsoft.com/hwdev/devdes/ndis5.htm).

   cdrom.com NDIS archive
   (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/).

   ["3TECH, The 3COM Technical Journal", Winter 1991].

   (2000-10-30)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

NDIS
       Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS)