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This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2011) The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification ( RNDIS) is a used mostly on top of.

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It provides a virtual link to most versions of the, and operating systems. A partial RNDIS specification is available from Microsoft, but Windows implementations have been observed to issue requests not included in that specification, and to have undocumented constraints. The protocol is tightly coupled to Microsoft's programming interfaces and models, most notably the (NDIS), which are alien to operating systems other than Windows. This complicates implementing RNDIS on non-Microsoft operating systemsbut Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD implement RNDIS natively.

The (USB-IF) defines at least three non-proprietary (USB CDC) protocols with comparable 'virtual Ethernet' functionality; one of them (CDC-ECM) predates RNDIS and is widely used for interoperability with non-Microsoft operating systems, but does not work with Windows. Some versions of include RNDIS USB functionality, while more recent versions (such as in September 2016) do not. Notes and references.