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84 NAME="NET-COMMON-ETHERNET-DRIVER-DESIGN">Chapter 33. Ethernet Driver Design</H1
86 >Currently, the networking stack only supports ethernet based
89 >The network drivers use a two-layer design. One layer is
90 hardware independent and contains all the stack specific code.
91 The other layer is platform dependent and communicates with the
92 hardware independent layer via a very simple API. In this way,
93 hardware device drivers can actually be used with other stacks,
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107 The driver and API is the same as the minimal debug stack used by
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