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| '''Internals of NDIS driver for VIRTIO based network adapter'''
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| This document contains implementation notes of Windows network adapter driver of VirtIO network device.
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| == Abbreviations in the document ==
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| · LSO, a.k.a. GSO, a.k.a. TSO – Large, Global, Transmit segment offload – the same thing in context of Windows driver.
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| · OOB – out-of-band packet data; set of structures, associated with packet
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| · SG – scatter-gather
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| · MTU – maximal transfer unit
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| · MSS – maximal segment size
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| · CS – checksum
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| · MDL – memory descriptor list
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| · WL – waiting list
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| · DUT – device under test
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| == NDIS driver features ==
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| === Basic networking operations ===
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