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- From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Getting DOS TCP/IP software to work with NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.030904.2122@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 03:09:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov6.030904.2122
- References: <1992Nov5.031150.12271@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <EBROWN.92Nov5161748@bud_light.kodak.com>
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- In article <EBROWN.92Nov5161748@bud_light.kodak.com> ebrown@tap.kodak.com writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.031150.12271@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> ushomirs@spot.Colorado.EDU (USHOMIRSKIY GRIGORIY) writes:
- >
- > I remeber reading here that Win NT's network drivers are similar to NDIS.
- > In this case it seems to be easy to get any dos TCP/IP software that uses
- > packet drivers or NDIS to work with NT.
-
- >I was under the impression that Microsoft and a couple other vendors
- >(Sun and FTP Software notably) had come up with the Windows Socket
- >specification and that that was to be the new TCP/IP standard interface
- >rather than packet drivers.
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- Windows NT uses WinSock as an API for talking to the TCP/IP stack. NT also
- uses NDIS 3.0 as an API for talking to a network driver.
-
- Since NT has TCP/IP built-in, you probably don't want to run another TCP/IP
- stack in a DOS box, even if you could make it work. But protocols that are
- not based on TCP/IP (such as DEC's LAT) can't use WinSock, and must instead
- write directly to the network board driver using NDIS.
-
- -- Tad
-