General information
Miami is a new TCP/IP protocol stack to access the Internet
by modem, cable modem or ISDN, or to access local networks by Ethernet/Arcnet. The main
difference to other existing protocol stacks (such as AmiTCP and AS-225) are:
- Very easy to use. The configuration is completely GUI-driven,
without any config files or environment variables to edit.
- Dialer (interactive and script-driven) and PPP/SLIP
integrated. No SANA-II drivers are *required* for PPP/SLIP, but Miami can still be used
together with SANA-II drivers (e.g. for Ethernet/Arcnet access). This means you do NOT
have to configure ppp.device or cslip.device with Miami.
- Separate configuration programs MiamiInit or MiamiInitSANA2
to automatically configure Miami for your Internet provider
- API-compatible to AmiTCP and (with the use of the PD
socket.library) to AS-225, i.e. you can use most existing clients and servers with Miami.
- Several new features that make modem-based connections easier
and more convenient to use, e.g. dialer for multiple phone numbers, localization for the
GUI, automatic dialscript generator, dynamic DNS host name cache and other things.
- T/TCP (TCP for transactions) for faster web browsing. This
feature is supported by the new web browser "Voyager NG".
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