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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Tony Tancredi wrote:

> > Anyoine coming into a TIA connection over an X.25 pad
> > doesn't get counted?
> 
> What is TIA?

TIA stands for "The Internetwork Alternative".  It runs as a standard 
application on a *Nix or VMS host and appears like a SLIP connection to
the dial-on host.  Because the user is running TIA under a USER account, 
he has the same privelidges and restrictions he would under the shell 
account.  When the TCP connect packet comes in, the TIA application
connects to the desired host using a socket on the real host.

TIA users can use X.25, Dial-up, and Telnet connections to the shell 
account because the TIA packets to not go directly to the kernal.  Even 
though the user is using a "dummy host" IP address, the internet will 
only see the IP address of the SHELL host.  The result is a very cheap 
fire-wall.

> Tony Tancredi
> Reality Online
> 
> 

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu Apr  6 16:07:13 1995
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