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Level 6

Networking

The stack above the I/O Manager: Winsock/AFD, TCP/IP, filtering (WFP), and the NDIS drivers that reach the actual adapter.

  1. 1Networking
  2. 2Name resolution & the DNS Client
  3. 3The TCP/IP stack
  4. 4Winsock, AFD, and kernel boundaries
  5. 5NDIS and network adapters
  6. 6Filtering & firewalling
  7. 7WFP & BFE, a deep dive
  8. 8SMB and the workstation/server services
L5 I/O, storage & the cache managerL7 Configuration & the registry
  1. User Mode

    L0Applications, the loader & the Win32 environment
  2. L1System support processes & services
  3. L2Security & authentication
  4. Kernel Mode — the Executive

    L3IPC & component boundaries
  5. L4The Executive: objects, processes & memory
  6. L5I/O, storage & the cache manager
  7. L6Networking
  8. L7Configuration & the registry
  9. Kernel Mode — the kernel

    L8The kernel: scheduling, interrupts & synchronization
  10. Virtualization

    L9Virtualization & the hypervisor
  11. Boot, HAL & hardware

    L10Boot, HAL & hardware