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 (http://marketplace.com/).
Setting up TIA (http://www.webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html).
Telnet (telnet://marketplace.com).
Gopher (gopher://marketplace.com/).
FTP (ftp://marketplace.com/tia/).
E-mail: <
[email protected]>.
