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

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