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            • ▼Appendix A Full NIC Drivers
              • Appendix A Full NIC Drivers
              • A.1 Introduction
              • A.1.1 NIC Driver Design Goals
              • ▶A.1.2 NIC Driver Software Description
              • A.1.3 Full NIC Driver Operation Overview
              • A.2 Overview of Full NIC Driver Functions
              • A.2.1 Full NIC Driver Upper-Edge Functions
              • A.2.2 Transport Driver
              • ▼A.2.3 NDIS Interface Library
                • A.2.3 NDIS Interface Library
                • A.2.3.1 General
                • A.2.3.2 Functions Called by the Full NIC Driver
                • A.2.3.3 Functions Called by a Transport Driver
                • ▼A.2.3.4 Buffer, Packet, and Pool Functions
                  • A.2.3.4 Buffer, Packet, and Pool Functions
                  • A.2.3.4.1 Buffers
                  • A.2.3.4.2 Packets
                  • A.2.3.4.3 Pools
                • A.2.3.5 Memory and I/O Functions
                • A.2.3.6 File Management Functions
                • A.2.3.7 Timer Functions
                • A.2.3.8 Interrupt Handling Functions
                • A.2.3.9 Configuration Functions
                • A.2.3.10 Send Flag Functions
                • A.2.3.11 Spin Lock Functions
                • A.2.3.12 Interlocked Functions
                • A.2.3.13 Noninterlocked List Manipulation Functions
                • A.2.3.14 DMA-Related Functions
              • ▶A.2.4 Filter Libraries
              • A.3 Full NIC Driver Operations
              • A.3.1 Initializing Wrapper and Registering Drivers
              • A.3.2 Registering Network Interface Cards
              • A.3.3 Opening a Network Interface Card
              • A.3.4 Sending Data
              • A.3.5 Indicating and Transferring Received Data
              • A.3.6 Indicating Status
              • A.3.7 Querying and Setting NIC driver Capabilities
              • A.3.8 Querying Global Statistics
              • A.3.9 Closing Network Interface Cards
              • A.3.10 Resetting a Network Interface Card
              • A.3.11 Removing a Network Interface Card
              • A.3.12 Unloading and Deregistering Drivers
              • A.4 Writing a Full NIC Driver
              • ▶A.4.1 Programming Considerations
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