Windows 2000 Network Architecture
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Other Network APIs
Windows 2000 uses many APIs in addition to the ones that have been covered:
- The firewall API is a low-level API that allows greater and more complex filtering than the Filter Driver API.
- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) API allows applications to request DHCP options.
- The Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP) API allows applications to request multicast addresses.
- The DHCP Server Call API allows custom extensions to a DHCP server.
- The IP Helper API (IPHLP API) is a public API that provides TCP/IP information to Win32 applications.
- The Multiple Provider Router API (MPR API) is used to configure and administer routers.
- The Filter Driver API allows configuration of packet filtering for IP traffic.
- The Message Queuing API provides loosely-coupled, reliable communications. Message Queuing can be used for transaction processing to communicate transaction status.
For more information about network APIs, see the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK).
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