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)