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{{For|the Australian Government National Disability Insurance Scheme|National Disability Insurance Scheme}}
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The '''Network Driver Interface Specification''' ('''NDIS''') is an [[application programming interface]] (API) for [[network interface card]]s (NICs).
The '''Network Driver Interface Specification''' ('''NDIS''') is an [[application programming interface]] (API) for [[network interface card]]s (NICs). It was jointly developed by [[Microsoft]] and [[3Com Corporation]] and is mostly used in [[Microsoft Windows]]. However, the [[open source|open-source]] ''[[NDISwrapper]]'' and ''[[Project Evil]]'' [[driver wrapper]] projects allow many NDIS-compliant NICs to be used with [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]] and [[NetBSD]]. [[magnussoft ZETA]], a derivative of [[BeOS]], supports a number of NDIS drivers.▼
==Specification==
The NDIS forms the [[Logical Link Control]] (LLC) sublayer, which is the upper sublayer of the [[OSI model|OSI]] [[data link layer]] (layer 2). Therefore, the NDIS acts as the interface between the [[Media Access Control]] (MAC) sublayer, which is the lower sublayer of the data link layer, and the [[network layer]] (layer 3).▼
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The NDIS is a library of functions often referred to as a "[[driver wrapper|wrapper]]" that hides the underlying complexity of the NIC hardware and serves as a standard interface for level 3 network protocol drivers and hardware level MAC drivers. Another common LLC is the [[Open Data-Link Interface]] (ODI).
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