Inside Macintosh: Networking /

Chapter 11 - Ethernet, Token Ring, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface

Using Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI Drivers

This section describes how to write an application that implements a protocol other than AppleTalk and that reads data from and writes it to the hardware device driver for a particular network interface controller.

For Ethernet, this section describes how to locate the installed Ethernet cards and open the Ethernet driver for a particular card or a slotless device. Then it describes how to write data to the driver. Next it describes how to attach either the Apple default protocol handler or your own protocol handler to the Ethernet driver to read data for Ethernet Phase 1 packets.

For token ring and FDDI, this section describes the differences between using the Ethernet driver and the token ring or FDDI driver, including the steps to follow to
read data from and write it to this driver.

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Subtopics

Using the Ethernet Driver

Using the Token Ring Driver

Using the FDDI Driver