DOCUMENT:Q101871  27-JUL-1993  [W_NT]
TITLE   :INF: Information on the TDI Layer
PRODUCT :Windows NT
PROD/VER:3.10
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
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The TDI layer provides support routines for TDI providers and clients.
This is similar to what NDIS provides to NDIS drivers, except the NDIS
wrapper also handles binding, hardware abstraction, and many other
things that TDI does not.
 
Examples of these functions include copying data to and from MDL
chains, providing default indication handlers, and creating NetBIOS
address structures.
 
Although TDI doesn't do much now, it could in the future if TDI
becomes an OS abstraction layer as NDIS has.
 
TDI is also documented in the Windows NT DDK NDIS30 Network Guide.
 
Additional reference words: 3.10 book
KBCategory:
KBSubCategory: netsrv

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