Windows 2000 Network Architecture
Windows 2000 Network Architecture |
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Emulator Modules provide a single common interface to all Windows 2000 transport drivers. This simplifies the task of transport driver development since only the interface needs to be coded. The transport drivers provide the Transport Driver Interface. Therefore, they can only be used by applications that can use TDI. Some older applications are written to use older existing interfaces. Windows 2000 includes emulator modules for the most popular existing network interfaces (such as NetBIOS). Emulator modules provide a mapping layer between network interfaces and TDI-compliant protocols.