The Multi-Protocol Transport Services (MPTS) provided with LAN Server consists of two components:

• LAN Adapter and Protocol Support (LAPS)
  
• Socket/MPTS

The LAPS component of MPTS provides adapter, NetBIOS protocol, LAN Virtual Device Driver (VDD), and IEEE 802.2 support. LAPS contains network adapter drivers that provide communication between a protocol and network adapters, using the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) as the interface. IBM and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) network adapters that comply with NDIS up to NDIS 2.01 are supported by LAPS.

The Socket/MPTS component provides a transport framework that lets Socket applications communicate using TCP/IP, NetBIOS, or Local IPC. Socket/MPTS also allows TCP/IP applications to run over NetBIOS, and NetBIOS applications to run over TCP/IP, using the non-native networking feature of Socket/MPTS.

For more information about these important functions, refer to:

• MPTS - AnyNet for OS/2: Programmer's Reference 
  MPTS - AnyNet for OS/2: Configuration Guide

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