And I thought NRF sent the strangest questions. ;-)
Seriously, I think this has to do with terminal servers.
I worked on terminal software back in the last millennium. Sometimes a
state machine is required to keep track of what the user has typed already.
With character-based terminal applications you can send the data when a
particular character is sent, such as a CR usually. This avoids the default
behavior of sending each character separately. On the other hand, sometimes
you want to send on a timeout instead. Sending on CR doesn't work with some
applications, such as vi where a j moves up a line, etc.
Beyond that, I can't remember anything else. You know what they say about
the 80s. If you remember them you weren't there!?
Priscilla
At 06:28 PM 5/23/01, John Neiberger wrote:
>I've heard of state machines before, but still have no idea what this
>means:
>
>router(config)#?
>
>state-machine Define a TCP dispatch state machine
>
>
>I see from the configuration guides that it is related to the following
>commands:
>
>dispatch-character
> Defines a character that causes a packet to be sent.
>
>dispatch-machine
> Specifies an identifier for a TCP packet dispatch state machine on a
>particular line.
>
>dispatch-timeout
> Sets the character dispatch timer.
>
>Applying The Berkowitz Interrogative, what problem are these commands
>designed to solve? From reading through their descriptions I wasn't
>able to think of a use for them but that's probably because I still
>don't really understand what they do.
>
>Thanks,
>John
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