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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.

07 SANA II

SANA was an experimental DATA-link and API paper written by Dale  Luck for a
DevCon several years ago.  Dale suggested two schemes  for creating standard
interfaces for the data-link layer and protocol  stack APIs. After Dale left
Commodore, the work passed to several  other people-- and the "API" part was
removed.  After it had touched  several people's hands, SANA-II was put together.
SANA-II is nothing more than a standard for writing device drivers. Having
something which is SANA-II doesn't help you do networking  unless you have a real
protocol stack communicating through it.  FAR  too many people have seen
"SANA-II", and "Amiga networking  standard", and assumed too much. It is just a
device driver standard whose purpose is to prevent networking packages from hard
coding to specific hardware. This is similar to the reason for packet drivers in
the  PC clone arena.  A side benefit to SANA-II is that it allows multiple
protocols to share the same ethernet card.

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