fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) (12/18/90)
Archive-name: internet/msdos/ndis/1990-12-10 Archive: vax.ftp.com:/pub/ndis-mac.v201.txt [128.127.2.100] Original-posting-by: fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) Original-subject: Re: NDIS spec. Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) is not a card specification, but, as the name says, a driver specification. The specification was written by Microsoft and 3Com, to provide, like the packet driver, a common interface to many cards, which send packets to a single stack or demultiplex packets of different types for two protocol stacks. Although Version 2.0.1 of the spec came out about a year ago, most available drivers are still 1.0.1 based, and do not support unbinding. Both versions of the spec are available by anonymous ftp to vax.ftp.com. A packet driver to ndis converter, for most software that will run on the packet driver to use an NDIS driver, is available also, under the name "dis_pkt.dos." Unlike packet drivers, most NDIS drivers are written by hardware manufacturers, and are owned by those manufacturers. (As far as I know, however, only Ungerman-Bass charges customers for their NDIS driver.) They tend to be supported software. Frances Kirk Selkirk info@ftp.com (617) 246-0900 FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA 01880