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NDIS Miniport drivers can also use Windows Driver Model interfaces to control network hardware. [19] Another driver type is NDIS Intermediate Driver. Intermediate drivers sit in-between the MAC and IP layers and can control all traffic being accepted by the NIC. In practice, intermediate drivers implement both miniport and protocol interfaces.
The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is a Microsoft proprietary protocol used mostly on top of USB. [1] It provides a virtual Ethernet link to most versions of the Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Multiple revisions of a partial RNDIS specification are available from Microsoft, but Windows implementations have ...
The Open Data-Link Interface (ODI), developed by Apple and Novell, serves the same function as Microsoft and 3COM's Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS). [1] Originally, ODI was written for NetWare and Macintosh environments. Like NDIS, ODI provides rules that establish a vendor-neutral interface between the protocol stack and the ...
NDISwrapper enables a Unix-like system to use Windows drivers of type NDIS and WIFI. It was useful at a time where there were no Linux Wi-Fi drivers for common Wi-Fi cards. It is composed of: An NDIS driver, which is a kind of overlay for Ethernet device drivers. A Wi-Fi manager, to control the radio and security part of the Wi-Fi card.
NDIS 6.0 introduced in Windows Vista supports offloading IPv6 traffic and checksum calculations for IPv6, improved manageability, scalability and performance with reduced complexity for NDIS miniports, and simpler models for writing Lightweight Filter Drivers (LWF). LWF drivers are a combination of NDIS intermediate drivers and a miniport ...
Miniport is a type of device driver in Microsoft Windows that implements hardware-specific or function-specific subset of the full driver stack. [1] Examples include: NDIS Miniport; WDM Miniport; Display Miniport; Audio Miniport; StorPort Miniport; WIA Minidriver; HID Minidriver; Bluetooth Protocol Driver
Its authors rewrote the WinPcap NDIS 5 Protocol Driver as a Light-Weight Filter (LWF) driver, a change that reduces processing overhead. [15] Npcap maintenance releases updated the version of the included libpcap library to the latest available, allowing software authors to use the newer API features that Linux software had already supported ...
USB communications device class (or USB CDC) is a composite Universal Serial Bus device class.. The communications device class is used for computer networking devices akin to a network card, providing an interface for transmitting Ethernet or ATM frames onto some physical media.