The new features of Open Transport in Mac OS 9 are:
- Stability and performance have been improved.
- Copy stall problems should not occur over TCP/IP connections while transferring large blocks of data.
- The number of Open Transport library files has been reduced to two thereby reducing clutter in the extensions folder.
- Mac OS 9 includes a client/server version of ARA.
- Dial on demand performance has been improved.
- Corrects some problems affecting various third party wireless modems.
- Some internal changes to fix Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)-related pausing behavior.
- DHCP packets are now more compatible with Windows NT DHCP servers and other types of DHCP servers.