Editing Transport Driver Interface

The '''Transport Driver Interface''' or '''TDI''' is the protocol understood by the upper edge of the [[Transport layer]] of the Microsoft Windows [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]] network stack.

Transport Providers are implementations of network protocols such as [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]], [[NetBIOS]], and [[AppleTalk]].

When user-mode binaries are created by compiling and linking, an entity called a [[TDI client]] is linked into the binary.  TDI clients are provided with the [[compiler]].  The user-mode binary uses the user-mode API of whatever network protocol is being used, which in turn causes the TDI client to emit TDI commands into the Transport Provider.

Typical TDI commands are TDI_SEND, TDI_CONNECT, TDI_RECEIVE.

The purpose of the Transport Driver Interface is to provide an abstraction layer, permitting simplification of the TDI clients.

== See also ==
* [[Windows Vista networking technologies]]

== References ==
* Windows XP Driver Development Kit documentation.

== Further reading ==

* {{citation|surname1=William Boswell|title=Inside Windows 2000 Server|publisher=Sams Publishing|year=2000|at=p.&nbsp;1001|isbn=978-1-56205-929-3|language=German|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYT7gKnwUQ8C&pg=PA1001|access-date=27 August 2021}}
* {{citation|surname1=Robert L. Bogue, Will Schmied|title=MCSE Windows XP Professional|publisher=Pearson|year=2003|at=pp.&nbsp;418–|isbn=978-3-8272-6441-1|language=German|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CpTHdZ4vukC&pg=PA418|access-date=27 August 2021}}
* {{citation|surname1=Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt|editor-surname1=PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.|title=An Introduction to Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice|year=2010|at=p.&nbsp;535|isbn=978-81-203-4138-8|language=German|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTT_SxBbryIC&pg=PA535|access-date=27 August 2021}}
* {{citation|surname1=Stefan Norberg|title=Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2001|at=pp.&nbsp;22 und das Schaubild auf S. 21|isbn=978-1-56592-768-1|language=German|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqMYXqbraNoC&pg=PA22|access-date=2014-11-19}}
* {{cite web |title=Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 |url=http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us//library/hh831568.aspx |website=docs.microsoft.com |access-date=27 August 2021 |language=en-us}}

[[Category:Network protocols]]
[[Category:Windows communication and services]]