Ref: 08260001
Title: Obtaining 3+Open 1.1 NDIS Drivers
date: 12/5/89

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

The Protocol Manager and Network Driver Interface Specification
(NDIS) adapter drivers from 3+Open 1.1 were recently uploaded to Ask3Com.
The drivers allow a protocol (XNS, NBP, etc.) to access the network in a
consistent and well-defined manner, regardless of the adapter or media
type (Etherlink II, Token Ring Plus, etc.).

Because NDIS is becoming an industry standard interface to
network adapters, the drivers are being used by protocols created by
third party developers as well as by 3+Open.

While most of the drivers were shipped in 3+Open 1.0, the 3+Open 1.1
release includes the following upgrades:

 * All drivers support NBP (NetBIOS Protocol)

 * Etherlink Plus DOS driver.  Both OS/2 and DOS versions now
   support DLC.

 * Tokenlink Plus DOS and OS/2 drivers

 * Protocol Manager and NETBIND bug fixes

 * Protocol Manager text files

 * Support for Demand Protocol Architecture (DPA) drivers

See the 3+Open LAN Manager Version 1.1 Release Notes for
supported adapter and protocol combinations.

Developers who have the Developer's Guide to Network Adapters (3C576)
should also download these files.  Included are PRO.MSG and PROH.MSG
which were inadvertently omitted from the 3C576 diskettes.  Also there
is a sample PROTOCOL.INI which may assist developers building this file.

All of the files have been compressed into a single file, NDIS.ZIP,
which is in the Ask3Com Forum, Drivers/Diagnostics library.  Use
PKUNZIP 1.02 to unpack it into individual driver and text files.

