Platform SDK: Windows Sockets

OSI Introduction

This section covers extensions to Windows Sockets 2 that are specific to OSI transports. It also describes aspects of base Windows Sockets 2 functions that require special consideration or that may exhibit unique behavior when used with OSI transports.

Fast Facts

Element Description
Protocol name(s) TP4/CLNS, TP4/NULL, and so forth.
Description Provides OSI transport services over OSI networking layer: CLTS for unreliable datagrams and COTS for reliable connection-oriented message streams.
Address family AF_OSI
Header file Ws2osi.h