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Remote NDIS is an extension of the well-understood and time-tested NDIS architecture. NDIS defines a function-call interface for device-specific NDIS miniport drivers. This interface defines primitives to send and receive network data, and to query and set configuration parameters and statistics. Remote NDIS leverages NDIS by defining a message wrapping for the NDIS miniport driver interface, thus moving the NDIS-handling code from a miniport driver into the device itself. In this and other ways, Remote NDIS allows for a wide range of device functionality and performance levels. The Remote NDIS model has many advantages:
Extensibility without change to the bus-specific message transport mechanisms
Ability to support more protocols over more buses in a short time
Driver architecture that has been proven for both networking and external bus device models
Value-added mechanisms that already exist in the NDIS network stack are supported for Remote NDIS devices.