ndis

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ndis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     Current 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)
  

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

  NDIS
         Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS)