35 lines
1.1 KiB
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35 lines
1.1 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
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<foilgroup id="freebsd-5.3">
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<foil id="freebsd-5.3-general"><title>What's new in FreeBSD 5.3</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>NDIS Binary Compatibility allows Windows XP network
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device drivers to be used with FreeBSD.</listitem>
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<listitem>IP Fast Forwarding for dramatic speedups in FreeBSD
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based routers.</listitem>
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<listitem>Continued locking and performance improvements to take
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advanced of SMPng architecture.</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</foil>
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<foil id="freebsd-5.3-net"><title>FreeBSD 5.3 Network Changes</title>
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<para>FreeBSD (i386) can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network
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drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. Windows
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drivers are turned into FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Modules (KLDs) with
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the <command>ndiscvt</command> command :</para>
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<screen># ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys \
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-n intel0
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# kldload intel0</screen>
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<para>More information is available in ndis(4), ndisapi(9), and
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ndiscvt(8). This functionality was written by Bill Paul.</para>
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</foil>
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</foilgroup>
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