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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-F8482AFB-BD49-5EF2-8092-EAA11862F9C4" xml:lang="en"><title>What
+is Network Interface Management (NifMan)?</title><shortdesc>This topic describes NifMan and how it works. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<section id="GUID-0696D42B-7FE1-4427-96C9-7C6A23698A16"><title>Introduction </title> <p>Network interfaces enable mobile
+devices to connect to a network. NifMan is a Symbian platform component that
+creates and manages network interfaces. Agent plug-ins set up the network
+interfaces. NIF plug-ins allow data to be transferred over the interface. </p> <p>NIF
+plug-ins allow the NIF to be configured over a network interface such as PPP
+(Point-to-Point Protocol) before a higher-level protocol such as TCP/IP is
+started. This functionality allows actions such as obtaining and setting of
+the IP address for the interface. Providing configuration functionality as
+a plug-in allows new configuration mechanisms to be added without rewriting
+the NIF. This allows a configuration plug-in to be used with different NIFs. </p> <p>In
+Symbian platform the functionality of the NifMan component has
+been replaced by the architecture changes for the <xref href="GUID-B7A40638-BA80-5175-B23D-2F3964C274A0.dita">Comms
+Architecture</xref>. The NIFs have been changed so that they are <xref href="GUID-CF890168-0FCA-5BFD-AC86-E355B611A6B0.dita#GUID-CF890168-0FCA-5BFD-AC86-E355B611A6B0/GUID-0B0B61DE-AABC-5F87-8205-30F818F79C0A">Stack Nodes</xref>. </p> <p>The Nifman component contains the following agent
+Stack Nodes: Subconnection Provider Agent node, Agent Connection Provider
+node, Tunnel Agent Connection Provider node. These nodes are used when building
+a Link layer. For example, the Ethernet protocol Flow node and Ethernet protocol
+MCPR node can be used with the Agent Subconnection Provider node and the Agent
+Connection Provider node. Nifman also contains an Agent Tier Manager node. </p> </section>
+</conbody><related-links>
+<link href="GUID-BF4E220C-2388-517B-87D8-78AB1EA6382E.dita"><linktext>Architecture</linktext>
+</link>
+</related-links></concept>
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