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HAPTER
4: M
ICROSOFT
W
INDOWS
E
NVIRONMENT
Promiscuous mode is automatically enabled and controlled
for the 3C359B NIC by applications that require this
feature. No user control is necessary.
You can assign a locally administered address (LAA) that
overrides the NIC’s universal address “burned-in” during
manufacturing.
NDIS 4 Miniport Driver
The NDIS 4 driver conforms to Microsoft’s NDIS 4.0
miniport specification and supports the following Windows
environments:
■
Windows 95 (version 950b, OSR2)
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Windows 98
■
Windows NT 4.0
The NDIS 4 driver supports all the 3C359B NIC features
listed in the preceding section for the NDIS 5 driver.
NDIS 3 Miniport Driver
The NDIS 3 miniport driver is compatible with Microsoft’s
NDIS 3.x miniport specification, and supports the following
Windows environments:
■
Windows 95 (version 950 and version 950b, OSR2)
■
Windows NT 3.51
The NDIS 3 driver supports all the 3C359B NIC features
listed in the preceding section for the NDIS 5 and NDIS 4
drivers except Dynamic
Access
Class of Service.
Installing a 3C359B NIC Driver for Windows
Environments
This section describes installing drivers for the following
operating system environments:
■
Windows 98
■
Windows 95 version 950
■
Windows 95 version 950b (OSR2)
■
Windows NT 4.0
■
Windows NT 3.51
