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From: mjhammel@Kepler.dell.com (Michael J. Hammel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Packet Drivers or NDIS Drivers for Netware
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Date: 1 Mar 91 16:35:54 GMT
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In article <1991Feb25.192415.46941@cc.usu.edu>, jrd@cc.usu.edu writes:
> 	Novell supports neither Packet Drivers nor NDIS. They do support
> their own Open Data-Link Interface (ODI, sometimes ODLI) which provides
> similar protocol multiplexing capabilities. That makes three "standards"
> these days. The specifications for ODI are available from Novell for a fee,
> and they form a substantially thick stack of paper. Is it possible to
> convert one to the other? Yes, it is, with some loss naturally, but those
> solutions (called "shims") are basically experimental and not for production
> use.

Ok, now I know where the ODI spec is.  How about the NDIS spec?  I have
the packet driver spec.  Someone here at work wants to know how the
three are related and I really don't know at this point. Are all three
Data Link Level protocols?  Are there RFCs, ISO Refs, or other accepted
standards reports for any of these (ie have they been adopted by any of
the standards organizations)?

I use the packet drivers with various applications.  Who has NDIS
applications?  ODI?  Has anyone implemented NDIS over packet-drivers? 
Vice-versa?  

Thanks net!

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