NDIS Binary Compatibility allows Windows XP network device drivers to be used with FreeBSD. IP Fast Forwarding for dramatic speedups in FreeBSD based routers. Continued locking and performance improvements to take advanced of SMPng architecture. FreeBSD (i386) can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. Windows drivers are turned into FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Modules (KLDs) with the ndiscvt command : # ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys \ -n intel0 # kldload intel0 More information is available in ndis(4), ndisapi(9), and ndiscvt(8). This functionality was written by Bill Paul.