Re: Slighly OT: TCP State machine? [7:5629]

2001-05-24 Thread Tom Lisa
Wait a minute, Priscilla!! That's what they told me about the 60's. I'm pretty sure I was there because my birth certificate says so. I vaguely recall somebody named Timothy and turning on & dropping out. After that it's all a blur. Prof. Tom Lisa, CCAI Community College of Southern Nevada Ci

Re: Slighly OT: TCP State machine? [7:5629]

2001-05-23 Thread ElephantChild
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > 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

Re: Slighly OT: TCP State machine? [7:5629]

2001-05-23 Thread ElephantChild
On Wed, 23 May 2001, John Neiberger wrote: (about state-machine, dispatch-character, dispatch-machine, and dispatch-timeout) > > 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

Re: Slighly OT: TCP State machine? [7:5629]

2001-05-23 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
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 applicat

Slighly OT: TCP State machine? [7:5629]

2001-05-23 Thread John Neiberger
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