Parties (NDIS 5.1)
Note NDIS 5. x has been deprecated and is superseded by NDIS 6. x. For new NDIS driver development, see Network Drivers Starting with Windows Vista. For information about porting NDIS 5. x drivers to NDIS 6. x, see Porting NDIS 5.x Drivers to NDIS 6.0.
A party represents one of possibly many leaves of a point-to-multipoint connection. When making an outgoing call, a connection-oriented client can specify a party. This makes the call a multipoint call, with the client acting as the root of the call and the remote party as a leaf. The client can then request that additional remote parties be added as leaf nodes to the call.
For more information about adding parties to a point-to-multipoint call, see Adding a Party to a Multipoint Call. For information about deleting parties from a point-to-multipoint call, see Dropping a Party from a Multipoint Call.