Network Driver Interface Specification是微软所提供的网络适配器（NIC）API，使N I C和多个协议进行通信成为可能，功能相当于 OSI 数据链结层的逻辑链路控制（LLC）。

NDIS 的版本演进如下：

The Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) is an application programming interface (API) for network interface cards (NICs). It was jointly developed by Microsoft and 3Com Corporation and is mostly used in Microsoft Windows. However, the open-source NDISwrapper and Project Evil driver wrapper projects allow many NDIS-compliant NICs to be used with Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. magnussoft ZETA, a derivative of BeOS, supports a number of NDIS drivers.