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>:

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