IBM 19K5716 manual Using Ndis in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me

12. Using NDIS

This section contains instructions for using NDIS.

Using NDIS in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me

The NDIS WAN CAPI device driver

The NDIS WAN CAPI Device Driver for Windows 95 provides the capability for dial-up networking (RAS) over ISDN. The NDIS WAN CAPI device driver is based upon the standardized CAPI 2.0 application interface, and can be used with all CAPI 2.0-compliant ISDN adapters.

To install the device driver into MS Windows 95, you need the Microsoft ISDN Accelerator Pack v1.1 or its successor, Microsoft Dial-Up Networking 1.3 Upgrade.

Do not install these programs at the same time!

Both programs extend the functionality of Windows 9x and Windows Me Dial-Up Networking and form the basis for installation of the NDIS WAN CAPI Device Driver for Windows 9x and Windows Me. The table below shows the location of this software on the CD-ROM for each operating system.

Operating System	Directory
Windows 95	Win95\NDIS
Windows 98	WIN98\NDIS
Windows Me	WinME\NDIS

Both products contain a WAN architecture for Windows 95, identical to that of Windows NT, with features beyond simple modem support. This software enables Windows 95 to support media such as X.25, Frame Relay and ISDN.

Please note that this architecture allows you to set up only ISDN connections based on the Point-to-Point-Protocol (PPP) over ISDN and HDLC using Dial-Up Networking, unlike the ISDN CAPI Port Device Driver, which provides a UNIMODEM/VCOMM device driver. HyperTerminal, CompuServe client software and similar packages cannot be used with the ISDN Accelerator Pack. For these packages, please use the ISDN CAPI Port Device Driver or cFos.

NDIS is an abbreviation for Network Device Interface Specification and defines a standard for binding network adapters (hardware) to network protocols (software). NDIS WAN is a Microsoft extension of this standard for Wide-Area

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