This chapter describes full NIC drivers that comply with NDIS 3.0. If you are providing a network driver, it is not necessary for you to write a full NIC driver because the current version of Windows NT supports miniport NIC drivers. It is recommended that you provide a miniport NIC driver instead of the full NIC driver to save time. You need to develop fewer routines in your miniport NIC driver because there is more support for common routines in the NDIS library.