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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<foilgroup id="freebsd-5.3">
<foil id="freebsd-5.3-general"><title>What's new in FreeBSD 5.3</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>NDIS Binary Compatibility allows Windows XP network
device drivers to be used with FreeBSD.</listitem>
<listitem>IP Fast Forwarding for dramatic speedups in FreeBSD
based routers.</listitem>
<listitem>Continued locking and performance improvements to take
advanced of SMPng architecture.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</foil>
<foil id="freebsd-5.3-net"><title>FreeBSD 5.3 Network Changes</title>
<para>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 <command>ndisvt</command> command :</para>
<screen># ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys \
-n intel0
# kldload intel0</screen>
<para>More information is available in ndis(4), ndisapi(9), and
ndiscvt(8). This functionality was written by Bill Paul.</para>
</foil>
</foilgroup>
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