Remote Operation
Network Primer
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established by the routers during the ARP process. As a result, the user does not need to
manually enter the subnet mask and default gateway information.
When the TCP/IP protocol stack software starts operation, it communicates with an NDIS
or ODI driver in a process called binding. During this process, the stack tells the driver
which protocol it is handling. In this way, a driver can direct packets to more than one
protocol stack. For example, it is quite common to have the Novell IPX/SPX protocol
stack and the TCP/IP protocol stack operating over the same ODI multi-protocol driver.
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