NDIS2 or ODI/NDIS3?

[Richard P. O'Sullivan]

I have the MS TCP/IP stack and a MegaHertz PCMCIA Ethernet card. I
am experimenting with the two Network Driver Types: NDIS2 and ODI/NDIS3.
I can get both to work. I am not using any other network protocol.

What are the differences between these two drivers? What are the
advantages / disadvantages to each?

Thanks, Rick

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[Paul Gill]

Richard P. O'Sullivan (ros...@aww.com) wrote:
: I have the MS TCP/IP stack and a MegaHertz PCMCIA Ethernet card. I

The ODI/NDIS3 is designed to work with Novell NetWare as well as MS
Windows networking. The NDIS2 doesn't support Novell.

[Thomas Lee]

In article <Pine.AMI.3.91.96012706...@aww.com>,
"Richard P. O'Sullivan" <ros...@aww.com> writes

> I have the MS TCP/IP stack and a MegaHertz PCMCIA Ethernet card. I
>am experimenting with the two Network Driver Types: NDIS2 and ODI/NDIS3.
>I can get both to work. I am not using any other network protocol.
>
> What are the differences between these two drivers? What are the
>advantages / disadvantages to each?

The NDIS 3 driver is 32-bit and will live in Extended memory. The NDIS 2
driver is real mode and will live below the 1mb line.

In general, the Ndis 2 driver will be slower and take up more
conventional memory.

Thomas
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