The Open Data-Link Interface (ODI), developed by Apple and Novell, serves the same function as Microsoft and 3COM's Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS).
[1] Originally, ODI was written for NetWare and Macintosh environments.
Like NDIS, ODI provides rules that establish a vendor-neutral interface between the protocol stack and the adapter driver.
This interface also enables one or more network drivers to support one or more protocol stacks.
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