Internet Adapter
<networking, product> The Internet Adapter (TIA). A program from
Cyberspace Development which runs on a Unix shell account and acts as a SLIP
emulator. A TIA emulated SLIP account is not quite the same as a real SLIP
account but TIA's SLIP emulation is completely standard in terms of working with
MacTCP-based software on the Macintosh (or WinSock on a Microsoft Windows
machine).
You do not get your own Internet Address as you do with a real SLIP account,
instead, TIA uses the IP number of the machine it runs on and "redirects"
traffic back to you. You cannot set up your machine as an FTP server, for
instance, since there's no IP number for an FTP client elsewhere to connect to.
TIA's performance is reportedly good, faster than normal SLIP in fact, and about
as fast as Compressed SLIP. Future releases will support CSLIP and even PPP.
Cyberspace Development has ported TIA to several versions of Unix and more are
on the way.
TERM is a free program which performs a similar function between two machines
both running Unix.
Home.
Setting up TIA.
Telnet.
Gopher.
FTP.
E-mail: <tia-info@marketplace.com>.
(1995-04-12)
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