NDIS Versions (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 x has been deprecated and is superseded by NDIS 6.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.

If you are writing an NDIS driver for more than one version of Microsoft Windows, be sure the features that you are using are supported on each Windows version. New features have been added to NDIS with each release. Other features became obsolete and were removed from later NDIS versions.

Note   A driver can query the NDIS version by calling the NdisReadConfiguration function with the Keyword parameter set to NdisVersion.

 

Windows operating system and Driver Development Kit (DDK) version support for NDIS versions, as well as support for major NDIS features across NDIS versions, are described in the following table:

Operating system	Supported NDIS version	CoNDIS	Deserialized driver	Intermediate driver
Windows 95 Windows NT 4.0 DDK Windows 95 DDK	3.1
	Added support for miniport drivers and Plug and Play.
Windows 95 OSR2 Windows NT 4.0 DDK Windows 95 DDK	4.0
	Protocol driver is a vxd-type driver.
Windows 98 Windows NT 4.0 DDK Windows 98 DDK	4.1	X	X	X
	Protocol driver is a vxd-type driver.
Windows 98 SE Windows NT 4.0 DDK Windows 98 DDK	5.0	X	X	X
	Added support for Power Management and WMI.
Windows Me Windows 2000 DDK Windows 98 DDK for Vxds	5.0	X	X	X
Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 3.5 DDK	3.0
Windows NT 4.0 Windows NT 4.0 DDK	4.0
	Added these features: MiniportSendPackets ProtocolReceivePacket MiniportAllocateComplete
Windows NT 4.0 SP3 Windows NT DDK with updated NDIS header and library	4.1	X	X	X
Windows 2000 Windows 2000 DDK	5.0	X	X	X
	Added support for: New INF file format compatible with Windows 95/98/Me Plug and Play and Power Management WMI LBFO Scatter/gather DMA support for deserialized miniport drivers
Windows XP Windows XP DDK	5.1	X	X	X
	Added support for: MiniportCancelSendPackets MiniportPnPEventNotify MiniportShutdown NdisCancelSendPackets NdisCopyFromPacketToPacketSafe NdisGeneratePartialCancelId NdisGetFirstBufferFromPacketSafe NdisGetPoolFromPacket NdisGetSharedDataAlignment NdisIMGetCurrentPacketStack NdisIMNotifyPnPEvent NdisQueryPendingIOCount NDIS_GET_PACKET_CANCEL_ID NDIS_SET_PACKET_CANCEL_ID OID_GEN_MACHINE_NAME New miniport driver attribute flags 64-bit statistical counters Remote NDIS Scatter/gather support for both serialized and deserialized miniport drivers Packet stacking for intermediate drivers VLAN tagging Offloading the Processing of UDP-Encapsulated ESP Packets (Windows Server 2003 only) Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in Windows XP SP1 Dropped support for: Full Mac drivers NDIS 3.0 protocols NdisQueryMapRegisterCount EISA bus

 

 

 

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