Chapter 7. Networking
Microsoft Windows was designed with networking in mind, and it includes broad networking support that is integrated with the I/O system and the Windows APIs. The four basic types of network software components are services, APIs, protocols, and drivers for network adapters—with each component layered on top of the next to form a network stack. Windows has well-defined interfaces for each layer, so in addition to using the wide variety of APIs, protocols, and network adapter device drivers that ship with Windows, third parties can extend the operating system’s networking capabilities by developing their own components.
In this chapter, we take you from the top of the Windows networking stack to the bottom. First, we present ...
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