Windows NT and the OSI Model

From:

Windows NT Unleashed

By Robert Cowart, SAMS Publishing, 1995

Component

Redirector Service/

File System Driver (FSD)/

NT Requester /

Multiple UNC Provider (MUP)

TCP

IP

Wrapper with NDIS

device driver

(Network Device Interface Specification 3.0)

NIC

Boundary

Layers

File

Systems

Transport Data

Interface (TDI)

NDIS 3.0

Transport

Portocols

OSI

Layer

Application

Presentation

Session

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical

Windows NT

Redirector

Netware Redirector

Other

Redirectors

Kernel-mode Process

WNet API

Multiple Provider Router

LANManWorkstation

NWCWorkstation

Other

providers

User-mode Process

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