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Hardware Specific Module (HSM)
The HSM is created for a specific network board. The HSM handles all
hardware interactions. Its primary functions include adapter initialization,
reset, shutdown, and removal.
It also handles packet reception and transmission. Additional procedures
may also provide support for timeout detection, multicast addressing, and
promiscuous mode reception.
Open Data-Link Interface Network driver interface specification
SUPport (ODINSUP)
An interface that allows the coexistence of two network driver interfaces:
the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) and the Open Data-Link
Interface (ODI) specification (see “Open Data-Link Interface (ODI)”).
ODINSUP allows you to connect to dissimilar networks from your
workstation and use them as if they were one network.
In a NetWare Services system, ODINSUP relates only to clients.
ODINSUP also allows NDIS protocol stacks to communicate through the
ODI’s LSL and MLID. This way, NDIS and ODI protocol stacks can coexist
in the same system, making use of a single ODI MLID.
For example, after you load ODINSUP on your workstation, you can log in
to 3Com’s 3+Share, Microsoft’s LAN Manager, or IBM’s LAN Server
network, and also log in to a NetWare network, using the same network
board in the workstation.
You can then copy files and run applications between the two networks as if
they were one.
When ODINSUP is loaded, you can use a wider variety of programs without
having to worry about compatibility and without reconfiguring or rebooting
your workstation to switch from one type of network to another.