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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NDIS/MAC via FTP-Spec Packet Driver?
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Date: 4 Dec 90 00:12:00 GMT
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    ... a Novel ODI driver that uses a packet driver and/or NDIS as its base
    would complete the picture.

Novell promised a "Packet Driver MLID" to attendees at an academic Netware
user's forum last August.  I don't know when it might hit the streets.  There
are probably serious political obstacles to Novell's doing an "NDIS MLID",
witness the existence of two standards where one might suffice (and don't
throw bricks at us for continuing to maintain the Packet Driver spec when
NDIS exists - NDIS won't have equivalent functionality until drivers
conforming to v2.0 and supporting 'unbind' become widely available).

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