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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 7 of 14: Networking Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: 7.2. How do I connect to... See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge I briefly described NDIS 3.1 back in the Hardware section, but I'll cover it quickly here again. It's a Plug & Play version of Microsoft's Network Device Interface Spec, which lets you do cool stuff like disconnect from the network when you undock your notebook, then re-connect as soon as you insert a PCMCIA network card, or dial in with your modem. Win95 has four classes of network components: Clients (For using shared resources), Services (for sharing or controlling shared resources), Transport Protocols (To communicate over network cards), and the network cards themselves. Protocols can use any network card, and usually, clients and services can use any protocol (there are specific dependencies, such as Client for NetWare on IPX/SPX Protocol). Clients are actually file system drivers, which use local caching (VCACHE) to off-load the server a bit. NDIS 3.1 software does NOT occupy conventional memory, so if you have all Win95 clients, services, drivers, and protocols, you can run your DOS programs within Win95 without worrying about how much RAM you have. This goes for IPX network games too. All net components in Win95 should conform to this, otherwise don't waste your time. User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 7 of 14: Networking Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: 7.2. How do I connect to... Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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