Packet Drivers

I originally developed the packet driver at FTP Software in 1986. We needed to decouple the network device driver from the protocol stack, and to provide an interface to the driver so that multiple protocol stacks could run over it. At the time, most network software had the device driver linked in; the packet driver predates its competing specifications, ODI and NDIS.

The current version of the packet driver specification is 1.09.

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