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From: jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re:  Question about packet, NDIS, Clarkson, BYU, etc
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Date: 8 May 91 02:50:43 GMT
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In article <9105070330.AA05948@alw.nih.gov> RAF@CU.NIH.GOV (Roger Fajman) writes:
>3Com has something they call Demand Protocol Architecture, which allows
>protocol stacks to be loaded and unloaded in an NDIS environment.  Is
>this something layered on top of NDIS then, so that not all NDIS stacks
>support it?

DPA is just an NDIS protocol driver that's loaded as a TSR (which is 
unloadable) instead of a device driver (which is not unloadable).

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 John Robert Breeden, 
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