Network Driver Interface Specification: Difference between revisions

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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.

The NDIS versions supported by various Windows versions are as follows<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/overview-of-ndis-versions|title=Overview of NDIS versions - Windows drivers|last=|first=|date=|website=docs.microsoft.com|language=en-us|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-24}}</ref>:

The NDIS versions supported by various Windows versions are as follows:

* NDIS 2.0: [[MS-DOS]], [[Windows 3.1x|Windows for Workgroups 3.1]], [[OS/2]]

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* NDIS 3.1: [[Windows 95]]

* NDIS 4.0: Windows 95 OSR2, [[Windows NT 4.0|NT 4.0]], [[Windows CE 3.0]]

* NDIS 54.01: [[Windows 98]],
* NDIS 5.0: [[Windows 98 SE]], [[Windows Me|Me]], [[Windows 2000|2000]]

* NDIS 5.1: [[Windows XP]], [[Windows Server 2003|Server 2003]], [[Windows CE]] 4.x, 5.0, 6.0<ref>{{Citation|title=Network Drivers (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee484851(v=winembedded.60).aspx}}</ref>

* NDIS 5.2: Windows Server 2003 SP2