Network Device Interface Specification

networking, hardware, standard (NDIS) A Microsoft Windowsdevice 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.

Home .

cdrom.com NDIS archive.

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

(2000-10-30)