Transport Driver Interface

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The Transport Driver Interface ( TDI for short ) is an interface that is used between file system drivers and transport protocols and enables any TDI-compatible protocol to communicate with the file system drivers. The advantage of TDI is that no additional drivers are required for communication, a program "speaks" to TDI and does not have to worry about the various network protocols (TCPIP, NetBios ...). The interface was part of Windows XP and Windows 2000.

In the OSI model, the Transport Driver Interface belongs to layer 4.

In the meantime, TDI is out of date, as Microsoft itself states. The "Windows Filter Platform" can be used instead.

Linux and other Unix operating systems and Unix derivatives support many of the required network protocols directly and therefore do not have a transport driver interface.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Boswell: Inside Windows 2000 Server . Sams Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-1-56205-929-3 , pp. 1001 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 19, 2014]).
  2. ^ Robert L. Bogue, Will Schmied: MCSE Windows XP Professional . Pearson, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8272-6441-1 , pp. 418– ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 19, 2014]).
  3. ^ Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt: An Introduction to Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice . Ed .: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. 2010, ISBN 978-81-203-4138-8 , pp. 535 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 19, 2014]).
  4. ^ Stefan Norberg: Securing Windows NT / 2000 Servers for the Internet . O'Reilly, 2001, ISBN 978-1-56592-768-1 , pp. 22 and the diagram on p. 21 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 19, 2014]).
  5. ↑ microsoft.com: Features removed or deprecated in Windows Server 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2014
  6. ↑ microsoft.com: Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2014.