Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] packet reception

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From: "Beatriz Silva" <beatriz_hargrave@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:22:27 -0500
Could somebody help me to understand what are the steps of a computer receiving a packet. It is received by the NIC and kept in a NIC buffer ? How is it given to the application ? In which part of the process Ethereal acts ?
What exactly is NDIS ?

Thanks,
Beatriz
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